School Implementing AI Samurai's Invention Education Program 'Hatsumei Terakoya®' Wins at MEXT's 'Entrepreneurship Education Award 2026'
Hiratsuka Secondary School, which introduced AI Samurai's 'Hatsumei Terakoya®', won the Create New Value Award at MEXT's Entrepreneurship Education Award. The program uses AI patent simulations to foster students' problem-solving skills.
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AI Samurai Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Hajime Shirasaka) announces that the initiative by Kanagawa Prefectural Hiratsuka Secondary School, which introduced our invention education program 'Hatsumei Terakoya®', has won the Create New Value Award at the 'Entrepreneurship Education Award 2026' sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
### Overview of the Awarded Initiative
This initiative targeted 1st-year junior high school students over 10 classes. It was a comprehensive practice where students thought of inventions starting from 'someone's problem,' materialized their ideas through repeated trial and error, and ultimately presented them as an 'Invention King Play.' Designed as the starting point for inquiry-based learning over the six years of combined junior and senior high school education, it was highly evaluated as an educational practice that fosters students' ability to proactively identify problems, create solutions, and communicate them to society.
On the official MEXT website, this initiative is introduced as follows:
(Image: Introduction content of this initiative published on the MEXT official website from the 'Entrepreneurship Education Award 2026')
In these classes, there is an emphasis on the process of repeated trial and error while judging and analyzing students' ideas using the patent examination simulation system 'AI Samurai.' It was praised for allowing students to recognize the potential of their own ideas and gain experience in taking on challenges while overcoming failures by making continuous improvements based on the AI's evaluation results.
(Reference: https://www.mext.go.jp/entrepreneurship-education/event_202603/)
### Educational Features of Hatsumei Terakoya®
In this initiative, during the final presentation, Mr. Kato summarized the following three points as the characteristics of Hatsumei Terakoya®:
1. Sociality: Evaluating students' inventions using patent data, which is an 'authentic social standard.'
2. Improvability: Emphasizing the process of utilizing AI analysis results to make inventions better through trial and error.
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### Overview of the Awarded Initiative
This initiative targeted 1st-year junior high school students over 10 classes. It was a comprehensive practice where students thought of inventions starting from 'someone's problem,' materialized their ideas through repeated trial and error, and ultimately presented them as an 'Invention King Play.' Designed as the starting point for inquiry-based learning over the six years of combined junior and senior high school education, it was highly evaluated as an educational practice that fosters students' ability to proactively identify problems, create solutions, and communicate them to society.
On the official MEXT website, this initiative is introduced as follows:
(Image: Introduction content of this initiative published on the MEXT official website from the 'Entrepreneurship Education Award 2026')
In these classes, there is an emphasis on the process of repeated trial and error while judging and analyzing students' ideas using the patent examination simulation system 'AI Samurai.' It was praised for allowing students to recognize the potential of their own ideas and gain experience in taking on challenges while overcoming failures by making continuous improvements based on the AI's evaluation results.
(Reference: https://www.mext.go.jp/entrepreneurship-education/event_202603/)
### Educational Features of Hatsumei Terakoya®
In this initiative, during the final presentation, Mr. Kato summarized the following three points as the characteristics of Hatsumei Terakoya®:
1. Sociality: Evaluating students' inventions using patent data, which is an 'authentic social standard.'
2. Improvability: Emphasizing the process of utilizing AI analysis results to make inventions better through trial and error.
(Truncated in original text, translated as is)