Our student wins corporate award at the "doda Idea Competition"

At the "doda Idea Competition" held in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo on Saturday, January 17, the team of Marie Kaneda and Tomomi Kondo, a second-year student at our Faculty of Science and Engineering university, won the corporate award.

The "doda Idea Competition" is a business idea contest for students held as part of the "CAREER GATEWAY 2025" sponsored by Benesse i-Career Co., Ltd. First- and second-year university students propose business plans to companies on the theme of SDGs. This year's fourth contest attracted a record 352 university students.

Kaneda and Kondo's team focused on the issues faced by students, such as "anxiety about the future" and "isolation on campus," and proposed a campus-only peer support platform called "PeerBridge" to prevent "loss of learning opportunities" within the university. This system matches students with "good skills" such as programming and language with students who are "worried about their assignments and career paths" with location information and tags. In addition to the safety of university certification, we will convert the history of support into data as "proof of contribution" and turn it into an "asset" that can be used in job hunting.

After the contest, Mr. Kaneda said, "The experience of desperately thinking of solutions to the urgent problems faced by students such as 'I don't know who to talk to' has become an irreplaceable asset for us.