On June 11th, our second grade students made their first presentation in English as part of the “Global proposals” project.

In this project, our students are going to hold an international conference in November, entitled “Food Security－How to Feed the World in 2050”. They will take part in the mock conference as representatives of 14 countries. As the first step, our students conducted their first English presentation.

The theme was “Opinions and reasons on genetically modified products”
Each of 14 countries gave five-minute presentations with Q&A sessions in English.
The goal at this stage was　”Be able to make your (country’s) position clear and express it in English”. Professor Timothy Cauller and four students from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, joined the presentations and gave constructive comments on the topics. Our students received high commendation from Professor Cauller.

On March 16, our second-grade students held the mock international conference with exchange students attending Kanazawa University. This conference was held on campus to finalize a series of activities our students had experienced in “Global proposals” project this year.
In November, as part of the “Global proposals” project, our students had already taken part in a mock international conference as representatives of 14 countries, conducted in Japanese and entitled “Food Security－How to Feed the World in 2050”. Based on the results of the previous conference, our students made presentations in English this time. They used slides in their presentations in order to propose a variety of solutions for global food security issues from the point of view of individual country. They also had meaningful exchanges of views with the audience.