September 1 to 30.2005
Sony Science Education Program for Children
The period for accepting educational project applications for the Sony Science Education Program for Children ended September 5, 2005.
This year, applications were received from a total of 170 schools from across Japan. Of these, 139 were from elementary schools and 31 from junior high schools.
Fact-finding visits will be conducted of the schools considered leading candidates for awardment after the screening process for all project application essays has been completed.
Final results will be announced December 19, 2005.
Sony Preschool Education Program for Children
1. Period Has Ended For Submitting Essays For Educational Project Applications to The Sony Preschool Education Program For Children
The deadline for submitting educational project essays for the Sony Preschool Education Program for Children, now in its fourth year, was Sept. 12. The Program received applications from a total of 62 schools located in 22 different municipal regions across Japan. The screening process has already begun and the schools qualifying for various levels of awardment, including Advanced Project School, will be finalized after fact-finding visits have been conducted. The names of the awardment qualifying schools will be posted on the Foundation web site around the middle of December.
2. Report Presentation Meeting to be Held at Advanced Project Recipient Onomachi Nursery School (Kanzawa City)
The Onomachi Nursery School (Kanzawa City), which has now qualified for the Advanced Project School awardment for the third time, will be holding its report presentation meeting at the school. The meeting for 2005 will feature open-house nursery school sessions, research reports and commemorative lectures based on the theme of "Fostering children with an appreciation for the sciences"
--- Through Enrichment in Communion with Nature.
Visit the following URL for more detailed information.
- 2005 Report Presentation Meeting Details
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/2005exhibition/oono.html - Review of 2004 Report Presentation Meeting
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/preschool/2004exhibition/oono0.html
"Wellspring of Science Inspiration---Children's Schoolhouse of Dreams"
The Japan Educational Press featured an article (pages 1 and 7, September 19 issue) on an event conducted by the Wellspring of Science Inspiration program.
Visitors to this section are also encouraged to browse coverage of the Wellspring of Science Inspiration program in the form of quick updates, a review of the course opening ceremony, with address given by head teacher of the school Hideki Shirakawa, and the introduction to activities based on the central theme of "learning both how to learn on one's own and from nature." Go to the following page of the Sony Education Foundation web site.
http://www.sony-ef.or.jp/spring/index.html
Plans are already being drawn up for the Wellspring of Science Inspiration program to be held during the summer holidays in 2006.
