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The MIT-Japan Program and the MIT Club of Japan, the MIT alumni association in Japan will hold a series of STEAM workshops in Japan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT's first Japanese graduate from Fukuoka, Japan. Mr. Eichiro Honma graduated from MIT in 1874 in Course 1 (civil engineering), and after returning to Japan worked for the Ministry of the Navy, the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, as well as for various railway companies, where he served as chief engineer and advisor to the president and director.

The STEAM workshops will be held during the summer, staring in Fukuoka on June 23rd and will also be held in Osaka, Tokyo, Usuitogei (Gunma) and Kesennuma. Participants of the workshop will be selected from an application of students from 5th, 6th and 7th grade. Our MISTI / MIT-Japan Program interns who will be doing their internships at Japanese companies and universities will be helping to lead the workshops at these five locations in Japan. 

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More information on the MIT Alum Community Website

 

We will also celebrate at MIT! We will have an exhibit about the First Japanese students who graduated from MIT during the Fall 2024 semester in Hayden Library and will have a panel discussion with Professor Hiromu Nagahara and his collaborators from Keio University on September 25, 2024. Come learn about these SAMURAI turned ENGINEERS! Please save the date and stay tuned for more details soon!

Overview of the event:

Date and Time: 23 June (Sun), 10:00 - 15:00 (registration starts at 9:30)

Venue: Fukuoka Science Museum, 4-2-1 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City

Number of applicants: 50

Application deadline: 23:55, 10 May, 2024 (Fri)

No open call for applications; the workshop will be held at an educational facility in Kesennuma.

Date and time: 4-7 July (planned)

Date and time: 21 July (Sun), 10:00 - 15:00 (registration starts at 9:30)

Venue: 2-17-85 Juso-Honcho, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka City

Number of applicants: 48

Application deadline: Friday, 31 May 2024, 23:55

 

Date and time: 28 July (Sun), 10:00 - 15:00 (registration starts at 9:30)

Venue: Usui Pass Railway Cultural Village

407-16 Yokogawa, Matsuida-cho, Annaka, Gunma

Number of applicants: 25

Application deadline: until 23:55 on 31 May (F

As last year, the Tokyo workshop is only open to female children and students.

Date and time: Sunday, 4 August, 10:00 - 15:00 (registration starts at 9:30)

Venue: Kuramae Hall, Kuramae Kaikan, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2-10-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo

Number of applicants: 50

Application deadline: until 23:55 on 31 May (Fri)