Professor Yutaka Sasaki of the Faculty of Regional Environment Science, Tokyo Agriculture University, in cooperation with Professor Takeki Ochiai of Hosei University International High School, has started a high school-university collaborative education in which high school students experience the use of smart plant factories and the development and sale of insect food.Students from Hosei University International High School remotely control a plant factory and challenge food development using insects.
According to Tokyo Agriculture University, students from Hosei University International High School visited Tokyo Agriculture University after being briefed by Professor Sasaki about smart plant factories and insect foods at an online kickoff meeting, and then visited Professor Sasaki's laboratory and smart plant factories. I visited.Members of Tokyo Agriculture University will visit Hosei University International High School to discuss future schedules with students.
The smart plant factory is set up in the laboratory of Tokyo Agriculture University and is prepared for students of Hosei University International High School to remotely monitor and conduct cultivation experiments.Insect food, in addition to Tokyo Agriculture University, Agritech Venture Utsusemi Techno and Insect Food Cross Tech Consortium Neo ASICS will put the ideas of high school students into concrete form and aim to sell them as products.
In agriculture, increasing food production has emerged as a major issue due to the population explosion in developing countries.Among them, attention is focused on smart plant factories that utilize the latest ICT (information and communication) technology and AI (artificial intelligence), and insect food, which is considered to be a new protein source.In this high school-university collaborative education, high school students also aim to practice problem-solving learning by narrowing down their wisdom on these issues.
reference:Bio Robotics Laboratory, Tokyo Agriculture University
