No. 7
Saturday, August 27, 2016.

ITFI and EPS Presentations
Presentations for the International Team Field
Investigation (ITFI) and Earth Science Project (ESP)
were held at the Sansui Hall, Mie University. 16
teams performed both oral- and poster-presentations
at the conference room and in the lobby, respectively.
In the oral session, each team explained the result of
the ITFI to the juries using PowerPoint within 8minutes. Afterwards, the students answered thejuries’ questions for 2 minutes. Students who werenot performing were not allowed to enter theconference room. Instead, they stayed in the lobby for
their poster presentation. The poster summarized
students’ result and ideas with many colorful figuresthat enhanced understanding. In addition to juries, thestudents also presented their work to guests andreporters.

Clockwise from top left; oralpresentation room, showing
result of analysis, poster
presentation in front of media,
in front of jury, lobby poster
session held.

FranceThe 11th IESO will be held in France, which is thedecision of the coordinators’ meeting on the 23rd.
The first IESO was held in Korea. Then it rounds
Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Italy, Argentina,India, Spain and Brazil. Japan was initiallyplanned to host in 2012, but due to the Great
Tohoku Earthquake in 2011, which made hosting
IESO in 2012 difficult, Argentina took the great
responsibility to host the 6th IESO. Thank you,
Argentina!

Weather Forecast
Today (27)

max 32 ºC
chance of rain 30%
cloudy, partly sunny

Today's Schedule

Students
06:30 - 08:00 Breakfast
08:10
Departure with all your baggage
09:00
Photography at Mie University
09:30 - 11:30 Award and Closing Ceremony
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00
Departure
Mentors and Observers (Alterable)
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast (Room Ise)
08:10
Departure with all your baggage
09:00
Photography at Mie University
09:30 - 11:30 Award and Closing Ceremony
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00
DepartureDisruption and Persistence
Scheduling of ESP had seen twists and turns until its
presentation yesterday with ITFI at the Sansui Hall.
The project theme for ESP “Living on the edge of atectonic plate” , announced on Tuesday afternoon
was considered vague by students, and the Q&A at
the end of the explanation meeting failed to help
students design their presentations.
The supervisors in Suzuka reminded students of the“Disaster Prevention Program” given on Sunday topicture daily life in countries on plate margin. Thisorientation helps students start the project; however,most teams failed to complete their posters, and thesupervisors declared that ESP had to be canceled.
Nonetheless, the headquarter in Tsu decided toresume the project on Thursday night, and on Friday
morning, the students were asked to complete theirposter before Friday noon. Still, the supervisors inSuzuka advised students to emphasize on ITFI, thetradition of the IESO.
The supervisors pointed out the shortage of time fortwo projects, ITFI and ESP, during the IESO.
According to the schedule, only Friday morning isavailable to make the two posters, and thus, students
devoted only two hours for ITFI and a half hour for
ESP poster making.
The students showed their great persistence andconcentration on Friday in completing beautiful
posters before deadline. However, the supervisors inSuzuka argued the importance of definite, consistentand well prepared instruction to make the projects
fruitful.

Clockwise from top left; preparation room in Mie University,
making PowerPoint slides on PC, drawing a graph on theposter, exhausted student.

Farewell Party
Students attended the farewell party at Hotel Green
Park Tsu, on Friday evening, and each teamperformed very well. Team Kazakhstan charmed theaudience with their synchronized dance, dressed inwhite traditional costume. Team Sri Lanka also
captivated the audience with their traditional dance.
Team USA welcomed the audience to the stage for
their dance. Finally, the show ended with TeamJapan's dances: “Soranbushi” , which is rather
traditional and “Wonderful rush” by “μ's” .

Kids didvery well!!
Clockwise from top left; Teams
Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, USA,and Japan.

Editor;Kazutaka Mannen, Kentaro Tada,
Kai-Huang Cheng, Arito Sakaguchi
and Bogdan Dumitru Enescu
Publisher; Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
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