Transforming the future of humanity

人 間 の 未 来 を 変 える 学 校

Kamiyama Marugoto College of Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

神 山 まるご と高 専

The power to create things
that bring about change
Students develop their human potential amid the rich nature of Kamiyama,learning the power to create things with their own hands,
and the power to bring about change so they can turn their dreams into reality

Find yourself
amidnature
Go out andchange the world
Less than an hour's drive from central Tokushima city, the small town ofKamiyama has a population of about 5,000. With its rich natural environment,
this is an innovative place implementing cutting-edge initiatives such as art
projects and satellite offices. The study building, called the OFFICE, is built fromKamiyama timber and connects the school with greater society. The dormitory,
called HOME, is a renovated school building of the former Kamiyama JuniorHigh School where many children once studied, and is the center of daily life.

OFFICEA school building connecting you with nature.
Connect with the town, society, and the world.
Make connections with lifelong friends.

HOME
A comfortable dormitory
where we utilize our history
and contribute to our future.
Private room with high ceiling

School meals prepared withJapan's best locally produced food
The Food Hub Project, which operates Kamaya, a cafeteria
for town residents, and Kamapan, a bakery with a nationwide
following, prepares meals served at the school. Delicious foodusing fresh Kamiyama ingredients helps develop connections
with the town's producers and an awareness of the need tosolve the town’s challenges.

Practicallearningstyles
Learn what you
truly need to knowKamiyama Marugoto College offers practical education combining exercisesand experiments, as well as lecture-based general courses and specialized
fundamental courses, utilizing methods made more effective based on thecontent. Students acquire pragmatic problem-solving skills not only byworking on assignments but also by engaging in interactive classes throughmeans such as active learning, problem-based learning (PBL), and group
work, in which they develop and solve problems themselves.
Active learning

A proactive approach

Students are organized into small groups based on the classcontent. Group discussions, group work, and debate are all partof the active learning style, which emphasizes the importance ofstudents understanding the nature of problems, defining theissues, and independently selecting and learning the knowledge
and skills necessary to solve them.

Entrepreneur lecturers

Tomoko Namba

Learning by doing

This approach fosters the ability to strategically plan integrated
solutions to real-world problems. By repeating the process ofproblem formulation, hypothesis formulation, preparation andpractice of research and exercises, analysis, and hypothesis
testing, students develop their ability to discover fundamental
issues and propose concrete solutions.

Outside of class, apart from academic staff, active entrepreneurs

An environment in which diverse
entrepreneurial lecturers are a normalpart of everyday life

Representative Director& Executive Chairman
DeNA Co., Ltd.

Problem-based learning

visit the school every Wednesday as instructors, hold sessions
after classes, and spend a day together with the students. This
provides an environment for naturally coming into contact withentrepreneurs making new things happen in our world.

CEOHoshino Resorts

Director & Co-Founder
Makuake, Inc.

CEOHERALBONY Co., Ltd.

Founder & Brand Producer
SHIRO Co., Ltd.

CEOLeibniz Co. Ltd.

Yoshiharu Hoshino

Kana Bogaki

Takaya Matsuda

Hiiroe ImaiShu Yamaguchi*Partial list of lecturers

TechnologyDesign
Entrepreneurship
A complete education

Students learn technology, centered on information engineering, and expertise indesign fields such as UI/UX and design thinking, together with entrepreneurial
skills such as communication, leadership, and resilience. This cross-cutting
approach to education provides both specialized knowledge and acomprehensive set of essential skills.

TechnologyMoving toward a future where all things
are connected to the Internet, students
learn the fundamentals of the ability tocreate things, centered on software
engineering and extending to electronics
engineering for understanding theInternet of Things (IoT).
Algorithms

Programming
Electronics

AI

DesignStudents learn the ability to express, inimages, what they want to create. They
learn the ability to give form to appealing
things that society will welcome. This
happens not only through design, butalso through video, architecture, andgame creation techniques.

Internet of Things

Data analysis

Security

DesignArchitectural designAbility to engage with society
Entrepreneurship
Ability tocreate withothers

Strength innumbers

Become strong
with words

Ability to create things
Design＋

Become strongin creating images

Technology
Become strong
in the program

Power to makethings happen

Web design

Neighborsand thepower of lifey

UI/UX design

3Dcomputer graphics

Video

Game engines

Entrepreneurship

Our education covers not only the basics
of business and how to start a business,but also the essential skills to get others
involved, communication skills, and theability to overcome failures and move
forward through practical experience.

Problem solving

Leadership

TeamworkResilience

The Kamiyama Circle
educational concept shapes
the 5-year curriculum and culture
The Kamiyama Circle is an educational concept
designed to develop students who, based on
advanced creative skills, possess the ability
to engage with society and with others.
The aim is for students to learn holistically – notonly in the classroom, but also throughextracurricular activities, dormitory life, andother opportunities.

Design and Engineering

School opened:

Students per school year:

April 1, 2023

Approx. 40

Address:
343 Ohnoji, Jinryo, Kamiyama-cho,Myozai-gun, Tokushima, Japan

Faculty:21(excluding part-time lecturers)

School style:

Subjects:

Dormitory

Technology, design,entrepreneurship

About the facultySpecializations

Department:

Kamiyama Marugoto Collegeof Design, Technology, andEntrepreneurship.

General subjects

Facts and figures

Name:

Mainly middle andhigh school teachers
English, Japanese, mathematics,physics, science, history,economics, philosophy, etc.

10members

Technical colleges and university faculty,
practicing instructors
Programming, electrical andelectronics, design, art,entrepreneurship, etc.

TuitionTuition is virtually free for 5 years.

11members

See website for more info

As a school students can aim for regardless of their financial situation at home, weoffer our own scholarship program. With thanks to assistance from various
companies, tuition is nearly eliminated.

President's greetings"This project won’t end as a dream. We will establish a real school."
We have incorporated the founders' ideas into this actual school,
which we named accordingly. Along with employment and higher
education, we add entrepreneurship as another choice after students
graduate. And we have created an advanced curriculum with subjects
that are connected to society and the present day. This curriculum isbased on software development, cross-disciplinary technology,design, and entrepreneurship, practical exercises, and the nurturing of

Our school aims to learn andindividual ideas. In these five years, students learn not only how togrow together with its students

create products and express their visions, but also how to realize

Mineki Okura, President

these visions through the power to create actual things. All of us here
are eager to study with you, grow with you, and support you. We
sincerely look forward to seeing you all in Kamiyama.

Kamiyama Educational
Institute
info@kamiyama.ac.jp+81 (0)50-1780-2843(9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. JST weekdays)

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