Kiyori Fujikawa - 1(NIT (KOSEN), Tomakomai College)

Do You Know the Attractiveness of PRE-CON ?
Kiyori Fujikawa (NIT (KOSEN), Tomakomai College)
Hello, everyone. My name is Kiyori Fujikawa from Tomakomai Kosen. Youknow that there are four contests in Kosen : Robot contest, Programming contest,
Design contest, and this English presentation contest called PRE-CON. But I always
wonder why PRE-CON is not as popular as the other contests in my school. I want many
people to know the attractiveness of PRE-CON. So, today, I’m going to talk about “How
we can get the Tomakomai KOSEN students interested in PRE-CON” and give yousome specific suggestions for that.
Before I talk about the suggestions, I conducted a simple questionnaire forstudents at Tomakomai Kosen. The questionnaire is designed to ask what they think
about English, what they think about making a presentation, and what they think
about PRE-CON. The total number of responses is about 300. The graphs you will see
are divided into two groups, one is a group of 1st to 3rd graders, and the other is of 4thto 5th graders. Here are the results.
First, I show you the responses to the questions about what they think about
English. In response to the question "Do you like English?", about 50% of both groups
gave relatively positive opinions. However, in response to the question “Are you good atEnglish?”, less than 40% of both groups gave relatively positive opinions. From theseresults, we can see that many students like English but feel they are not good at it.
Second, I show you the responses to the questions about what they think about
making a presentation. In response to the question "Do you like to speak in front ofpeople?", less than 30% of both groups gave relatively positive opinions. In other words,
the majority of the students are not good at presenting something in front of people.
Finally, I show you the responses to the questions about what they think about
PRE-CON. In response to the question “Do you know PRE-CON?”, more than 60% of
both groups gave positive opinions. On the other hand, in response to the question “Areyou interested in PRE-CON?”, less than 25% of both groups gave relatively positiveopinions. These results show that many students know that there is a contest called“PRE-CON”, but few are actually interested in it.
Summing up the results of the questionnaire, it can be said that many students
know that PRE-CON exists, but they do not feel interested in it, and they feel that they
do not have enough skills to take part in PRE-CON, such as speaking English andmaking a presentation. So what should we do to help such situations? Here are two
specific suggestions for that.
The first suggestion is to have an event about PRE-CON. This is a kind oflecture that anyone can participate in, and some students who have ever participated inPRE-CON talk about how fun this contest is. The target audience is mainly students
who want to know what to do in PRE-CON. Through the event, more students know its
attractiveness even a little.
The second suggestion is to establish an English studies club. Tomakomai

Kiyori Fujikawa - 2(NIT (KOSEN), Tomakomai College)
Kosen does not have such a club. Therefore, I propose to establish a new club wherestudents with interests in English and PRE-CON engage in various English activities.
Today, I talked about how we can get the Tomakomai Kosen students
interested in PRE-CON and I gave two specific suggestions for that. I hope that theKosen students will be more interested in PRE-CON, and hopefully, more students will
participate in this attractive contest.