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Students and faculty members from our university collaborated on a Craft-Shop for the "Hokkaido Drone Implementation Promotion Project Consortium."

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Students and faculty of this university, November 19, 2024 We participated in a Craft-Shop organized by the "Hokkaido Drone Implementation Promotion Project Consortium," held in Fukushima Town, Hokkaido, for local high school and elementary school students.

Experiential Craft-Shop on "Tourism Business x Drone Utilization"

Students from the research laboratories of Associate Professor Toshihiro Nishizawa (Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems) and Associate Professor Junichi Osada (Department of Media Architecture) lectured second-year students at Hokkaido Fukushima Commercial High School on drone aerial photography techniques and video editing of captured data, and held an experiential Craft-Shop where the high school students themselves performed aerial photography and editing.

A group photo taken by a drone.
A group photo taken by a drone.
Aerial photographs taken by high school students
Aerial photographs taken by high school students
A scene from a class on tourism business and drones.
A scene from a class on tourism business and drones.

Drone Soccer Experience Workshop

A Craft-Shop was held for 5th and 6th graders from Fukushima Elementary School and 5th graders from Yoshioka Elementary School in Fukushima Town to experience drone soccer. The Craft-Shop provided an opportunity for interaction through drones, including matches between the elementary school students.

A group photo taken by a drone.
A group photo taken by a drone.
Scenes from the exhibition match
Scenes from the exhibition match

The "Hokkaido Drone Implementation Promotion Project Consortium" was formed with NTT Ad Corporation and NTT e-Drone Technology Corporation as managing companies, with the aim of solving regional issues through the social implementation of drones, which Hokkaido is striving for.