The theme is "Creating the Soil to Grow Environmental Research." 

REVANES Corporation is promoting Research Based Education (RBE) to promote research activities among middle and high school students.Science Castle.In the past four years, we have provided a total of more than 600 opportunities for research presentations.
This year's first Kyushu Conference will be held in Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan's environmental capital.This year's event will bring together junior high and high school students, universities, and companies engaged in research related to the "environment". We will search for new research themes that will lead to the next step forward in environmental purification, load reduction, and symbiosis among nature, society, and the human environment, with a focus on junior and senior high school students who will become leaders of the next generation.
In February of this year, Kumamoto Prefecture, Higo Bank, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto Industrial Association, and RIVANESS Co., Ltd. signed a "Collaboration Agreement to Discover and Nurture Next-Generation Ventures" to accelerate the development of the next generation in Kumamoto as a whole. (For the press release, please see(Please click here))

."Kumamoto Tech PlanterThe event will also feature lectures by the teams that participated in the "MARCH 2012" and university researchers who are engaged in environment-related research.Please join us as a place to present the results of your daily research and club activities and to interact with your peers and university researchers.

 

Outline of Science Castle Kyushu

 

Effective Date	Sunday, December 11, 2016 09:30-17:00
Venue	Minamata City General Moyai Fixing Center "Moyaikan (Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture)(3-1 Makinouchi, 6 minutes drive from Shin Minamata Station)
theme	Creating the soil in which environmental research can grow
subject (of taxation, etc.)	Students enrolled in junior high schools, high schools, and technical colleges mainly in the Kyushu region who are engaged in research projects through classes and club activities. Individual and voluntary participation is also possible. (Any field of study is welcome. All research activities, especially those related to the environment, are welcome.)
joint sponsorship	Minamata City
Partner Organizations	Atlas Corporation,Kumamoto University(in alphabetical order)
support (in alphabetical order)	Kyushu Regional Environment Office,Kumamoto University, National Minamata Disease Research Center,MEXT <Board of Education Okayama Prefectural Board of Education, Kagoshima Prefectural Board of Education, Kumamoto Prefectural Board of Education, Tottori Prefectural Board of Education, Nagasaki Prefectural Board of Education,Minamata Board of Education, Miyazaki Prefectural Board of Education<Academic Society Information Processing Society of Japan, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of National Colleges of Technology, Japan Botanical Society of Japan, Evolutionary Studies Society of Japan, Mathematics Society of Japan, Ecological Society of Japan, Japan Biophysical Society, Japan Geoscience Union, Geological Society of Japan, Japan Statistical Society, Bioinformatics Society of Japan, Physical Society of Japan

Schedule for the day

Hours.	Location	Contents
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.	2F Reception/Floor	For faculty members, please come to the reception desk on the 2nd floor. Students are requested to display their posters in the poster area as soon as they receive their handouts. Please come to Moyai Hall on the 3rd floor between 9:10-9:30.
9:30-9:45	3F Moyai Hall	opening ceremony
9:45-10:05	3F Moyai Hall	Special Lecture ①.
10:05-10:10	3F Moyai Hall	Oral Presentation Schools (O01-O06(Preliminary meeting)
10:10-11:40	3F Moyai Hall	Oral Presentations（O01-O06) *Other participating schools are basically requested to attend the lecture.
11:40-11:50	Move to the 2nd floor
11:50-12:30	2F Floor	Poster Presentation (odd number(No.) *Free time for oral presenters and even-numbered poster presenters. Please spend your free time exchanging opinions with poster presenting schools, workshops and booth exhibits.
12:50-12:55	3F Moyai Hall	Oral Presentation Schools (O07-O12(Preliminary meeting)
13:00-14:30	3F Moyai Hall	Oral Presentations（O07-O12) *Other participating schools are basically requested to attend the lecture.
14:30-14:40	Move to the 2nd floor
14:40-15:20	2F Floor	Poster Presentation (even number(No.) *Free time for oral presenters and odd-numbered poster presenters. Please spend your free time exchanging opinions with poster presenting schools, workshops, booths, etc.
15:20-15:30	Move to Moyai Hall on the 3rd floor
15:30-15:50	3F Moyai Hall	Special Lecture (2)
15:50-16:30	3F Moyai Hall	Closing Ceremony (Awards Ceremony and Jury Critique)
16:30-16:50	3F Moyai Hall, 2F Floor	Removal of questionnaires and posters

For a list of schools presenting oral and poster presentations(Please click here).

Special Lecture: Creating the Future of the Environment! University Researcher

Kumamoto's water cycle research will save the world.

Mr. Takehide Hama Kumamoto University Graduate School Advanced Science Research Division associate professor

Cloud hospital in remote islands with stethoscopes for telemedicine" (in Japanese)

Mr. Shinpei Ogawa AMI Corporation representative director (i.e. someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company)

Application for Participation

Please click the link below to register your abstract.
https://www.pasreg.jp/reg/top/scastle/author

Call for Abstract Submission Period:
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 8:30 - Monday, October 31, 2016 24:00 
First round of applications: June 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016(Deadline for oral presentations)
Second round of applications: October 1, 2016 - October 31, 2016

About Oral Presentations
Only the first round of applications will be considered for oral presentations.
If you wish to make an oral presentation, please be sure to complete the [Oral Presentation Review] section by September 30.

Access

Venue: "Moyaikan", Minamata City General Moyaikan Repair Center
(3-1 Makinouchi, Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture, 6 minutes by car from Shin-Minamata Station)
*Free shuttle bus will be available from Shin Minamata Station. (Details will be provided to participants at a later date.)

Contact us

Liverness Corporation Attn: Nakajima
Phone number: 06-6125-5622 mail: (Japanese only) [email protected]