Introduction of Our School
School name:National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College（独立行政法人 国立高等専門学校機構 和歌山工業高等専門学校）

School77 Noshima,Nada, Gobo, Wakayama, JAPANaddress:（和歌山県御坊市名田町野島 77）

School URL:

http://www.wakayama-nct.ac.jp/

PR message:

N.I.T., Wakayama College fosters flexible thinking and rich creativity（柔軟な思考力と豊かな創造力を育む和歌山高専．）

National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College is located in Gobo City,
Wakayama Prefecture, Japan (Fig.1). Wakayama Prefecture is the southernmost
prefecture in Honshu island. Our college is combined with a high school and a university,
so we study engineering expertise for 5 or 7 years from 15 years old. Our college has four
departments: Intelligent Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Civil Engineering. The number of the students
who study for five years is about 800, and that of the students for seven years is about50. Most of the students get jobs after graduation, and the rest enter universities or agraduate school after graduation. Both of the employment rate and the advancement
rate are 100%, and this is the greatest selling point of our college. The reason is that lotsof practice classes are provided as well as the lectures in our college.
Some students join club activities. Robot contest team, Japanese archery team,Volleyball team, etc. often win the local tournament, and they sometimes participate in
the national college competition. Robot contest team won the Design Award at thenational competition last year. For the competition, Robot contest team developed a giant
maid robot named “Ekusumakina-san” (Fig.2).
The Kinokuni Robot Festival is an event that is held at Gobo City Gymnasium
every December (Fig.3). This event consists of the All Japan Elementary School Robot
Contest, Junior High School Robot Contest and the Senior High School Student Robot
Contest. In addition, the latest robots of our Robot Contest Team and the cutting-edge
robots of companies are demonstrated there. The purposes of the Kinokuni Robot
Festival is not only the robot contests but also opportunities to see various robots and toreceive specified knowledge. It is also expected that the creativity of the participants will
be increased through this festival. Every year, many students from inside and outside of
Wakayama prefecture enjoy to the event.

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School name:National Institute of Technology, Wakayama College
Our college expects students to become excellent engineers in their future, andit also offers public lectures for children who live in the neighbor area. They canexperience the same/similar science experiments in the public lectures as that we college
students experience in our college. For example, it offers courses about making acomputer program, making an electronic circuit etc. Some movies of the public lectures
are introduced on the YouTube channel (Fig.4), so anyone can enjoy the lectures even if
they cannot participate in the lectures. Our college expect the children to be attracted toscience by participating in such lectures.
In such public lectures, not only the college professors but also the college
students play a role of a teacher. So, we college students can understand deeply what wehave learned by playing a role of a teacher. Moreover, we can receive new stimuli fromthe sensibility of the attending children. We believe that these experiences will let us
acquire various viewpoints that are required in the engineering fields. At thisInternational Robot High school, we would like to study the latest technologies about
robots, and we also want to talk with other participants. We are looking forward to seeing
friends!

Fig.1 National Institute of Technology,

Fig.2 Giant maid robot namedWakayama College“Ekusumakina-san”

Fig.4 Our college YouTube channel

Fig.3 Kinokuni Robot Festival2