On September 17th and 18th, “at the Pegasus Festival Students’ Expo”, the 9th to 12th grade students’research projects final presentations were held.
The theme for this year was “Ichi-Go-Ichi-E (一伍一会)”, which means classmates gather to create a festival which will occur only once in a lifetime. Based on this theme, students introduced their classes, students’ committees, club activities, and independent research results to the guests.
While the venue was crowded with a lot of visitors who watched the students’ presentations as well as the Super Global High School (SGH) presentations on their learning outcomes.
In the exhibition hall, there were multiple panels introducing the activities of SGH; “European Studies”, “African Studies”, “Global Studies”, “Round Square”, “Model United Nations”, and “Global Career Course” were all represented.
At the “European Studies” area, students who learned Europe while visiting there had exhibitions of their research topics such as “A Comparison of environmental policies in Germany and Japan” “Comparison of refugee policies in the EU and Japan” in both English and Japanese.
Students delivered presentations on their own experiences visiting historic sites, lectures by guides, and interaction with European students using pictures they took while there.
At the “African Studies”area, there was an exhibition of students reports made before and after their trip to Africa. Poster panels showed the students experiences with the wildlife of Africa as well as their experiences with local villagers.
Other SHG programs like “Round Square”, “Model United Nations”, “Global Career Course”, were also introduced, and there were displays on the various activities involved with them.
The display in the center of the venue was “Global Studies”, a research course in which students study the problems of the world.
The concept was “Dialogue with the Earth”, and there were a number of questions that students came up with through research on the current state of the world.
The panel “A Letter to the World” was filled with students questions like “Why won’t terrorism go away? “ “Can we survive despite the problems caused by global warming?”
At the SGH area, students start with questions, and learn while looking for the answer.
During this festival, questions from visitors were also collected in a ‘post office box’. These voices will be a reference for a new SGH theme, and direct the study of the students in the next school year.
Visitors to the displays could often hear “If you have any questions please feel free to ask me!” from students who were meeting the visitors in the classrooms.
These students carefully described the content of the exhibition and talked about what they researched and felt about it in their own words.
SGH is continuing to develop by sharing knowledge and experiences from the current school year and passing that on to the next year.
The skills students learned in this program were displayed well at this Pegasus Students’ Expo.