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Faculty of Liberal Arts students participated in the 20th Campus Venture Grand Prix National Competition

On Tuesday, February 27, 2024, the 20th National Campus Venture Grand Prix competition sponsored by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun was held at Kazan Kaikan (Faculty of Liberal Arts-ku, Tokyo). ) participated. The Campus Venture Grand Prix is a student business plan contest that started in 1999 and is held in eight regions across the country.It is known as the ``gateway to success for student entrepreneurs'' because many people take the opportunity to participate in this contest to start their own businesses and become successful. It is being
On the day of the national competition, 12 teams from around 600 applications made it through the preliminary rounds in each region to make it to the final round, where they continued to give unique and high-quality presentations.

Kato participated in a support program at Startup Hub Tokyo TAMA, a facility that supports entrepreneurship, and worked on creating a business plan with support from the facility's concierge, Tomohisa Ito, and others. His business plan, titled "Pochari - The Genius Discovery Project," is related to independent research, and its main business activities include operating a platform where elementary school students can share the details of their actual independent research projects, providing independent research manuals for teachers, and holding actual independent research events. With this plan, he won the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Secretary General Award at the Tokyo competition held on Friday, December 1st last year, and was selected to compete in this year's national competition. He also gave a presentation on his plan at the national competition, and answered the judges' questions without hesitation.

After the tournament, Kato said, ``It's an honor to be able to advance to the national tournament in this memorable 20th tournament.It's thanks to the cooperation of many people that we were able to advance to the national tournament. We would like to thank all those involved for their cooperation.In commercializing this service, we conducted interviews with many people, and we were especially surprised by the strained work situation on the part of teachers. As the number of teacher applicants is decreasing, we will commercialize this plan and provide support in order to make the work of teachers as easy as possible and create a future where students, who will be responsible for the future, can willingly apply to become teachers. I hope to do so," he said of his future goals.

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