High School–University Cooperation in the Gifu Prefecture, Japan by CanSat and Space Engineering Remote Course

Abstract

Since 2016, Gifu University, the Gifu Prefecture, the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education, the Gifu Kakamigahara Aerospace Museum, and the National Institute of Technology, Gifu College have been part of the Regional Revitalization Promotion Project by the Center of Community (and Intelligence) University (COC+) program of Gifu University’s Regional Cooperation Center. This program has given high school students from the Gifu prefecture the opportunity to experience the education and research of Gifu University in a high school–university collaboration project using the video conference system provided by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The project conveys the charm of the aerospace industry in the Gifu prefecture to foster and arouse motivation to work in the industry, provide basic knowledge about space engineering, and play an active part in the future artificial satellite, rocket, aviation industry. We thus held a space engineering course for the purpose of developing human resources.