The Science Castle 2018 Tohoku Conference was held in Fukushima, Japan on December 16, 2018.
There were presentations from 26 schools and 42 abstracts, including those from six prefectures in the Tohoku region.

The tournament website is(Please click here).

Below are the award results of the presentations.

<Oral Presentation

Science Castle Grand Prize
O-01 Creation of Functional Vegetables II Fukushima Municipal Watari Junior High School Science Club Minamiyu Kaneko

Science Castle Special Award
O-04 Isolation and Utilization of Plant Symbiotic Endophyte Yona Sato, Biotechnology Team, Yamagata Prefectural Murayama Industrial High School

Science Castle Akita Prefectural University Frontier 21 Award
O-10 The relationship between the aquatic environment of urban rivers and red tide as seen from diatom communities Setagaya Gakuen Junior & Senior High School Hiromi Hozoku

Science Castle NOK Award
O-07 Development of an Autonomous 3-wheel Drive Robot and Programs for Its Control

Science Castle Hirosaki University COI Award
O-12 Stress Acceptance Mechanism of Planaria from the Viewpoint of Individual Collapse Yahiro Yua, Planaria Group, Sendai Daisan High School, Miyagi, Japan

Science Castle Fukushima University Regional Creation Support Center Award
O-09 Salmonid Runs in the Umamigasaki River - From a Three-Year Study - Jun Sugimoto, Biology Department, Nihon University Yamagata Senior High School

Science Castle Roth Prize
O-08 Tagajo High School, Miyagi Prefecture Bursa.Busters Tagajo High School, Miyagi Prefecture SS Science Club Haruto Funayama

Science Castle Riverness Award
O-02 Research on Solution Pollination of Fruit Trees Using Agricultural Drones Aomori Prefectural Nakui Agricultural High School, 4th generation TEAM PINE Kana Sawayama

＜Poster Presentation

Science Castle Best Poster Award
P-23 Color Change by Polarizer Yukino Nikaido, Odate Junior High School, Hachinohe

Science Castle Best Poster Award
P-15 Basic research on mass culture of useful algae Fukushima Seikei High School Yuzuki Shimogama

Science Castle Best Poster Award
P-18 Ecological Survey on the Tohokusan salamander in Yagiyama Tomoka Sasaki, Sendai Jonan High School

Science Castle Best Poster Award
P-24 Establishment of a technique for preparing transparent skeletal specimens Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa Kojokan High School Mai Ushikubo

Science Castle Poster Special Award
P-27 Genetic Disturbance in Aizu Medaka (Oryzias latipes) 3 Aoi High School, Fukushima, Japan Daichi Matsuki

Group photo of award winners

That is all.