Date and Time |
Title of the Program |
Teacher |
Eligibility (Recommended) |
Application Status |
Sat. Jul. 6 |
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Making Tanabata Decorations |
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Sun. Jul. 7 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
The Mysteries of Electricity and Temperature |
Itsuhiro Kakeya Associate Professor Graduate School of Engineering |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
- |
Sat. Jul. 13 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
(Parents and children can participate) Picture book reading & doodling workshops *The event will be organised by the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, a German cultural institution. Pasona Foster staff will escort your child from KuSuKu to the site. For more information, please see below.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/de/ver.cfm?event_id=25757909
(German version) |
Hiroko Hori Library/Residence Program Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Sun. Jul. 14 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
What Kind of Animals Were Dinosaurs? |
Takeshi Setoguchi Director Kyoto Municipal Science Center for Youth (Professor Emeritus) |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Mon. Jul. 15 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Let's Hatch Cicada Eggs! |
Hideharu Numata Program-Specific Professor (Professor Emeritus) Kyoto University Research Administration Center (KURA)
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Open to all elementary grade students |
- |
Sat. Jul. 20 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Let's Get to Know the Baby in the Tummy! |
Chifumi Otaki, Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Medicine |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Sun. Jul. 21 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Turn and compare Earth and planets |
Astronomy Outreach Student Group "ASUCHIKA" |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Tue. Jul. 23 |
10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m. |
Cardboard Crafts: Squid Airplanes (Parents and children can participate) Paste and tear magic show (Have fun learning math through magic tricks while sticking and tearing paper strips!) |
Tadashi Tokieda, Professor, Stanford University |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Wed. Jul. 24 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Cut, Knit, & Learn: Papercraft Seismology |
Masumi Yamada Associate Professor Disaster Prevention Research Institute
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Open to all elementary grade students |
× |
Thu. Jul. 25 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Regenerate Immune Cells to Fight Cancer and Viruses! |
Hiroshi Kawamoto, Director and Professor Hiromi Sumita, Program-Specific Assistant Professor Institute for Life and Medical Sciences |
Open to all elementary grade students |
× |
Fri. Jul. 26 |
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Making Water Pistols |
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Sat.Jul. 27 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Let's Head into Town for Jizo-Bon! |
Masahiro Maeda Associate Professor Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies |
Open to all elementary grade students |
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Sun. Jul. 28 |
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Making Wind Chimes |
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Mon. Jul. 29 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
The Future: Where Electricity Comes from the Sky, and Batteries Never Run Out(TBD) |
Naoki Shinohara Professor Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
× |
Tue. Jul. 30 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
The Mystery of Tails: Understanding People through "Tail-ology" |
Sayaka Tojima Program-Specific Assistant Professor Hakubi Center for Advanced Research |
Open to all elementary grade students |
× |
Wed. Jul. 31 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Viruses Can Be Fun?! |
Akiko Makino Associate Professor Institute for Life and Medical Sciences |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
× |
Thu. Aug. 1 |
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Let's Draw Pictures Using All Five Senses! |
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× |
Fri. Aug. 2 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Tough Stories from the Sea: The Great Adventures of a Baby Fish |
Masatomo Tagawa Associate Professor Graduate School of Agriculture |
Open to all elementary grade students |
× |
Sat. Aug. 3 |
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Closed for facility maintenance |
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Sun. Aug. 4 |
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Making interesting slime |
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Mon. Aug. 5 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Let's Check Out Trilobites! |
Terufumi Ohno Takada Junior College Director of the Library (Professor Emeritus) |
Open to all elementary grade students |
× |
Tue. Aug. 6 |
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Cardboard Crafts: Let's Make Pictures with Scraps |
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× |
Wed. Aug. 7 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Parenting of Adelie penguins in Antarctica |
Nobuaki Arai Professor Emeritus |
TBD |
× |
Thu. Aug. 8 |
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m. |
Listen to the sounds of dugongs, dolphins and penguins! |
Kotaro Ichikawa Associate Professor Field Science Education and Research Center |
TBD |
× |
Fri. Aug. 9 |
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Cardboard Crafts: Let's Make Pictures with Scraps |
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Sat. Aug. 10 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Let's Make Fractal Shapes and Have Fun with Shadows! |
Hideki Tsuiki Professor Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
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Sun. Aug. 11 |
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Painting Advisor Day |
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Mon. Aug. 12 |
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Closed |
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Tue. Aug. 13 |
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Closed |
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Wed. Aug. 14 |
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Closed |
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Thu. Aug. 15 |
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Closed |
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Fri. Aug. 16 |
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Closed |
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Sat. Aug. 17 |
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Free Research / Solar Lanterns |
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Sun. Aug. 18 |
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Summer Festival |
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Mon. Aug. 19 |
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Kid's Expo |
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Tue. Aug. 20 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
What you Can Learn by Studying Rocks while Camping in Antarctica (tentative title) |
Tetsuo Kawakami Professor Graduate School of Science |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
× |
Wed. Aug. 21 |
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Thinking With Your Body: Let's Play With Time, Speed, and Distance |
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Thu. Aug. 22 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Can you do it well? Let's master the use of chest compressions and AED using an iPad! |
Taku Iwami, Professor Chika Nishiyama, Associate Professor Graduate School of Medicine |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
× |
Fri. Aug. 23 |
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Good for One, But Bad for the Other?―Thinking About Our Food Supply Systems |
Yayoi Kito Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Agriculture |
Upper elementary grade students (recommended) |
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Sat. Aug. 24 |
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Programming |
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Sun. Aug. 25 |
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Make Your Own Insect-opedia! |
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Sat. Aug. 31 |
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Thinking With Your Body: Let's Play With Dots, Lines, and Surfaces |
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