Awards
Team awards are listed with the names of the members.
Awards and selections
2026
- Grand Prix, 7th High School Business Idea Contest for the Future and HealthTowa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Toma Okugawa, Eita Miyachi, Shin Kaneko
- Fighting Spirit Prize, Original Section, KOSEN Programming ContestNational Federation of Colleges of TechnologyKoki Fukuda, Ukyo Okada, Toma Okugawa, Ousuke Ozawa, Riku Murakami
- 3rd place, Youth Pitch Contest, Startup World Cup Kyushu Regional (Kyudo AI)Pegasus Tech VenturesToma Okugawa, Shoei Nishimura
- Grand Prize, Lean Launchpad NagoyaTongaliToma Okugawa, Uryu Den, Keito Inoshita
- NICT Award, Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026 (Beacon)TongaliToma Okugawa, Uryu Den, Keito Inoshita
- Supporter Award: JR Central Award, Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026 (Beacon)TongaliToma Okugawa, Uryu Den, Keito Inoshita
- Supporter Award: Beyond Next Ventures Award, Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026 (Beacon)TongaliToma Okugawa, Uryu Den, Keito Inoshita
- Tongali Award, 5th place, Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026 (Beacon)TongaliToma Okugawa, Uryu Den, Keito Inoshita
- Semifinalist, SusHi Tech Teen ChallengeTokyo Metropolitan Government
2025
- Fighting Spirit Prize, Preliminary Round, Japanese Olympiad in Informatics (JOI)The Japanese Committee for International Olympiad in Informatics
- Fighting Spirit Prize, Original Section, KOSEN Programming ContestNational Federation of Colleges of TechnologyUkyo Okada, Koki Fukuda, Toma Okugawa, Toya Kimura, Hurano Hirabayasi
- Outstanding Presentation Award, 2025 Shikoku-section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and Related EngineersExecutive Committee of the conventionToma Okugawa, Tomonari Masuzaki, Takahiro Makiyama
- Selected creator, LEADING EDGE Shikoku (until January 2026)Part of the AKATSUKI Project of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and IndustryTheme: “Development of a mobile robot with 360-degree vision support specialized for nighttime environments”
- Outstanding Student AwardDepartment of Information Science and Technology, National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Yuge College
Presentations
2026
- Oral presentation at IEEE GCCE 2026: “Re-Defining Vanishing Municipalities in Japan”Kobe International Conference CenterToma Okugawa, Keito Inoshita
2025
- Oral presentation at the Shikoku-section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and Related Engineers: “Proposal and Web Implementation of a Kyudo Form Evaluation Method Based on Real-Time Pose Estimation”Toma Okugawa, Tomonari Masuzaki, Takahiro Makiyama
Media
2026
- Appeared on “エンドリ,” the student support segment of the FM Ehime program “カモ☆れでぃ★Night!”FM Ehime
- Contributed “Seeing in the Dark: How My Research Became Two Startups”Medium (Kairi AI)
- “NICT Award won at the Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026” (in Japanese)Koho Kamijima (Kamijima Town)
- “Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026, results report” (in Japanese)NICT ICT Startup Support Center
- Interview: “Onto the path of a researcher only one year after starting to program. A current KOSEN student takes on deep tech and regional revitalization.” (in Japanese)KOSEN MONSTER (C-Style)
2025
- “Message for the Future” (in Japanese)The Ehime Shimbun