On Saturday, January 20, the 3rd International Conference for High School Students was held as a WWL project at the Tennoji Campus of Osaka Kyoiku University.
　The event was attended by approximately 600 high school students, including first and second year students from the Hirano Campus, Ikeda Campus, WWL partner schools such as Kaohsiung Normal University Senior High School in Taiwan and Cheongju Foreign Language School in Korea, as well as domestic partner schools such as Okinawa International High School, Okayama Kinko High School, Wakayama Seirin High School, Osaka Prefectural Senri High School, and Osaka Prefectural Senboku High School. (Some high schools participated online).
　In the morning, five workshops planned and prepared by Hirano School students were held: “On-Line Meeting with Overseas Partner Schools,” “Card Game with International Students,” “Free Talk on Research Issues,” “Trade Game,” and “Quiz on SDGs. All the venues were very lively, and the high school students who participated in each program had a great time.
　Meanwhile, in the afternoon, presentations were made at four breakout sessions on the research topics they are working on on a daily basis.  The themes of each session were “Education,” “Innovation,” “Equality, Gender,” and “Community, Well-Being,” and a total of 16 teams presented their research, including presentations by students from the Hirano campus, students from partner schools in Japan and overseas, and presentations of joint research between the Hirano campus and Kaohsiung Normal University High School.  The program was closed with the “Well-Being” session, in which 16 teams presented their research, including presentations by students from the Hirano campus, presentations by students from overseas and domestic partner schools, and presentations by students from the Hirano campus and Kaohsiung Normal University High School.
　In the “Closing Ceremony” that concluded the day's program, a second-year student from our school, representing the participating students, made a “High School Student Declaration” expressing his determination to create a better society for the future.
　This international conference for high school students has been planned and prepared by the students since the first semester as one of WWL's initiatives.  We look forward to welcoming even more high school students to participate next year (the 4th conference).