Creating the future with flexible ideas and inspirations
Creating the future with flexible ideas and inspirations
TOYO and NPO named “Creative Adventure” based in Kyoto first met a workshop that one of TOYO member joined with his child. He was impressed with its activities and offered supports for them.
With hopes of letting all children learn programming intuitively without being affected by their family background or incomes, Creative Adventure offers the learning opportunities for children which leads to make places of comfort and security for them after school and holidays. Ultimately these activities support local communities.
NPO Creative Adventure (only in Japanese) https://creativeadventure.tech/
TOYO worked together with Creative Adventure for experiential programs for elementary school students, one of its local community support activities and carried out a program to teach how to fly paper airplanes in 2020.
In 2021, TOYO held a class “rocket engineering experiment and programming” that fifteen elementary school students living in Kyoto joined, and TOYO members supported this class as tutors.
Rocket engineering experiment class
Wearing masks and keeping their distance (as measures against coronavirus infection), elementary school students and their parents, and high school students as mentors joined the program. Creative Adventure also focuses on training of high school students as mentors, aiming to give chances for elementary school students to learn from them who are closer in age, at the same time, for high school students to cultivate their learning.
Elementary school students make rockets with high school students and their parents
Students learn how the rocket flies systematically and make rockets with plastic bottles. They enjoyed making their original rockets with their flexible ideas, coloring the white tails with drawing, their names, and message.
Drawing picture on the tails of rocket
Cutting the materials with tutor’s help
Once completed making, the students launched their original rockets with cheers and measured how far the rockets flew.
Rocket launch test at the venue
At the end of class, “Flight distance award” and “Design award” were announced and three students for each award received medals.
Students who won “Flight distance award”
Students who won “Design award”
At the programming class, students learned a programming for rocket operation to touch down the surface of targeted asteroid just after learning the rocket engineering.
TOYO member taught programming
Programming using PC with parents
We keep cooperation with Creative Adventure and plan experiential learning programs for children in Kyoto.
COVID-19 pandemic has caused impacts on economics, on the other hand reduced learning opportunities for children.
TOYO supports these activities to make opportunities for children to experience the fun of science and learn how important it is.
