Kumamoto KOSEN's Two Teams Win a Total of Three Awards at 'Entrepreneur Koshien 2025'
Two teams from Kumamoto National College of Technology (KOSEN) received a total of three awards at the 'Entrepreneur Koshien 2025'. The 'CPR BEAT Team' won the NICT President's Award and the SG Incubate Award, while the 'SMILE KUMAMOTO Team' received the Nifco Co., Ltd. Award, recognizing the students' entrepreneurial spirit and technical development skills utilizing ICT.
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Kumamoto National College of Technology (Kumamoto KOSEN), located in Yatsushiro City and Koshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture (Principal: Hiroshi Takamatsu), participated in the 'Entrepreneur Koshien 2025' hosted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at Marunouchi Building Hall & Conference Square (Tokyo). Kumamoto KOSEN's 'CPR BEAT Team' received two awards: the NICT President's Award and the SG Incubate Award, and the 'SMILE KUMAMOTO Team' received the Nifco Co., Ltd. Award.
Entrepreneur Koshien is a business contest where selected junior high school, high school, KOSEN, vocational school, university, and graduate school students from across Japan develop their own products and services using ICT, further refine them with ICT mentors, and compete through presentations filled with entrepreneurial spirit. This year, a total of nine teams selected from across the country made presentations.
**[CPR BEAT Team]**
The CPR BEAT Team participated in the 36th National KOSEN Programming Contest (hereinafter 'KOSEN Procon') in the free category, where they received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, the Grand Prize, the Information Processing Society of Japan Young Researcher Award, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Young Researcher Award, and the teamLab Corporate Award, along with the NICT Award, which granted them the right to participate in this competition. They were selected from the 'National KOSEN' region.
The 'CPR BEAT' developed by this team is a tool aimed at making it fun and engaging for anyone to learn correct cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a game-like manner. Their initiative, aiming to 'realize a society where everyone can save lives around them,' was highly evaluated, and in this competition, they received the NICT President's Award and the SG Incubate Award, which are top awards second only to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award.
**[SMILE KUMAMOTO Team]**
The SMILE KUMAMOTO Team participated in the '11th Sojo University Business Plan Contest and Kumamoto Prefecture Open Business Competition 2025,' co-hosted by Sojo University and Kumamoto Prefecture, in the general category. They received the Idea Grand Prize, the Special Jury Award, and the NICT Award, and were selected from the 'Kyushu' region to participate.
The 'Perfect Cameraman ♪' proposed by this team is a robot that automatically captures the best shots against the backdrop of Kumamoto's rich tourist attractions. Not only the idea but also the implementation aspects were innovative, such as incorporating AI recognition functions and verifying it as actually working software. Recognizing these achievements, they received the Nifco Co., Ltd. Award.
Entrepreneur Koshien is a business contest where selected junior high school, high school, KOSEN, vocational school, university, and graduate school students from across Japan develop their own products and services using ICT, further refine them with ICT mentors, and compete through presentations filled with entrepreneurial spirit. This year, a total of nine teams selected from across the country made presentations.
**[CPR BEAT Team]**
The CPR BEAT Team participated in the 36th National KOSEN Programming Contest (hereinafter 'KOSEN Procon') in the free category, where they received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, the Grand Prize, the Information Processing Society of Japan Young Researcher Award, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Young Researcher Award, and the teamLab Corporate Award, along with the NICT Award, which granted them the right to participate in this competition. They were selected from the 'National KOSEN' region.
The 'CPR BEAT' developed by this team is a tool aimed at making it fun and engaging for anyone to learn correct cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a game-like manner. Their initiative, aiming to 'realize a society where everyone can save lives around them,' was highly evaluated, and in this competition, they received the NICT President's Award and the SG Incubate Award, which are top awards second only to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award.
**[SMILE KUMAMOTO Team]**
The SMILE KUMAMOTO Team participated in the '11th Sojo University Business Plan Contest and Kumamoto Prefecture Open Business Competition 2025,' co-hosted by Sojo University and Kumamoto Prefecture, in the general category. They received the Idea Grand Prize, the Special Jury Award, and the NICT Award, and were selected from the 'Kyushu' region to participate.
The 'Perfect Cameraman ♪' proposed by this team is a robot that automatically captures the best shots against the backdrop of Kumamoto's rich tourist attractions. Not only the idea but also the implementation aspects were innovative, such as incorporating AI recognition functions and verifying it as actually working software. Recognizing these achievements, they received the Nifco Co., Ltd. Award.