Okinawa Prefectural Koyo High School SSH Steering Committee (October 2020)

The OKEON Churamori Project collaborates with high schools in Okinawa Prefecture on ant research. Okinawa Prefectural Koyo High School, the second school in the prefecture to be designated as a Super Science High School (SSH), is one of the schools involved in this research collaboration. Through this collaboration, Section Leader Yoshimura has been involved as one of the steering committee members since last year. High school research activities are not exempt from the hardships caused by the pandemic, and we feel that it is very difficult to plan research, collect data, and summarize research in limited time frames and under infection control measures. However, even under these circumstances, the students were able to make amazing progress from the  beginning of the program in July to the poster presentation in October. Because we saw such hard work from the students and guidance from the teachers, it was a very meaningful committee meeting.