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Report on the Faculty of Science Open Campus 2021
Shinya Takamaeda, Chair of the Open Campus Organizing Committee (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology / Department of Information Science)
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| Live lectures at the Faculty of Science Open Campus 2021 Top: Associate Professor Kazuishi Ueda, Department of Mathematics (Day 1) Bottom: Associate Professor Youhei Suzuki, Department of Earth and Planetary Environmental Science (Day 2) |
The 16th Open Campus of the Faculty of Science was held on July 10 (Sat.) and 11 (Sun.), 2021. Due to countermeasures against the new coronavirus infection, the event was held online as in the previous year. Live lectures by students and faculty members were broadcast live from Koshiba Hall via YouTube Live, and questions were asked and answered in real time using Slido, a chat-style question and answer system. The lectures, which were filmed in advance, were also distributed on demand. The lectures were viewed 13,665 times on both days, and although it is difficult to make direct comparisons with previous years' open campus events, the event was well attended by a large number of people.
According to the results of the questionnaire, the advantages of online viewing were highly appreciated, such as being able to listen to lectures without coming to the site and being able to ask questions easily. All the lectures received many pointed questions from the participants, and the Koshiba Hall was very lively despite the fact that only related persons were present. In particular, the live lectures by students were so lively that it was difficult to answer all the questions during the lecture time, as the speakers and facilitators interacted with each other, picking up questions that junior and senior high school students had. At the consultation corners by Department and for female junior and senior high school students, there were many participants who consulted with students and faculty members individually.
The theme of this year's open campus was "It's interesting because we don't know. We hope that more young people will aspire to the sciences by conveying to them the fascination of solving by their own hands what no one else in the world knows.
Finally, I would like to thank the staff of the General Affairs, Public Relations, and Information Team, as well as many students and faculty members for their cooperation in making the Open Campus a great success.
Published in the September 2021 issue of Faculty of Science News