Thembo attended the online meeting with high school students of Ishikawa Prefectural Kanazawa Izumigaoka Senior High School in July 2021. TUFS signed a cooperation agreement with the highschool in 2015. He gave advisory comments on the students' presentations, but he also was able to learn a lot from their presentations and was impressed by their educational system to encourage students on research and practicals than theories.
The following is his essay.
On June 16, 2021, the High School- University Collaboration Support Division-TUFS sent me an email requesting international students to apply and participate in the online presentation hosted by Kanazawa Izumigaoka Senior High School, Ishikawa Prefecture. In the presentation, the 3rd graders, who belonged to the supper global courses were to give a presentation on how to solve a global issue that they had been researching for a year. TUFS was inviting only three international students to apply and participate in the presentions by giving advisory comments on the student's three presentions.
when I saw the email, I picked interest and immediately applied to participate in this presentations. TUFS approved my application with the other three international students. In the presentation, we were divided into two groups, in each group 4 different presentions were made in English. Each session consisted of a 7-minute presentation and 13-minutes for questions and answers.
The student in my group had carried out research about four major topics. The first research was about the use of