PE-BANK Visits Award-Winning Schools of Singularity Battle Quest 2025 and Presents Prizes

PE-BANK Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo / President and Representative Director Mikiya Takada), a group company of MCEA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo / President and Representative Director Takeiku Saito) that proposes new work styles for IT engineers, awarded the corporate 'PE-BANK Award' as part of its sponsorship for the "6th National High School AI Athlete Championship 'Singularity Battle Quest 2025'". This competition aims to nurture and discover high school students who have honed their comprehensive AI/ICT skills to become 'AI Athletes' and determine the best among them. We visited the four award-winning schools to hand the prizes directly to the students and interact with them.

For details of the visit, please see the official PE-BANK note (https://note.com/pebank/n/na5fffd8ab0eb). We look forward to the day when IT engineers who will change the world in the future emerge from the high school students who participated in this tournament, and we can work together as PE-BANK's professional engineers.

■ PE-BANK Award Winning Teams (in no particular order)

- Kojo High School "RHY"
- Aichi Prefectural Aichi Comprehensive Technology High School "<!--Unreadable-->"
- Aichi Prefectural Tokai Shofu High School "We can try!"
- Ibaraki Prefectural IT Mirai High School "Spring Shark"

■ Tournament Overview

- Title: 6th National High School AI Athlete Championship Singularity Battle Quest 2025
https://singularitybattlequest.club/
- Regional Qualifiers: Sunday, September 14, 2025
- Secondary Selection: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - Friday, October 31, 2025
- Final Tournament: Saturday, January 31, 2026 [CQ only], Sunday, February 1

[PE-BANK Co., Ltd. Overview]

PE-BANK Co., Ltd. was established in 1989 as a cooperative. With the mission to "create a society where the social status of IT freelancers is further elevated," it has connected companies and engineers for over 30 years as Japan's oldest IT freelance engineer agency company. PE-BANK's symbol mark expresses its mission, "the talent companies want, the jobs engineers want," and the good relationship and partnership among the three parties with a cherry motif.

Company Name: PE-BANK Co., Ltd.
Representative: President and Representative Director Mikiya Takada
Headquarters Address: Grace Building Sengakujimae, 2-15-8 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Date of Establishment: May 1, 1989 (as a cooperative)
Capital: 312.95 million yen
Business Description: IT freelance engineer agency business, IT engineer dispatch/introduction business, seminar/welfare business for IT engineers
Corporate Site: https://pe-bank.co.jp
Pe-BANK Freelance: https://pe-bank.jp (Service site for IT freelancers)
Pe-BANK Career: https://career.pe-bank.jp (Dedicated service site for IT dispatch/introduction)
Pe-BANK College: https://pebank-college.jp (IT talent training service for corporations)
Support Plus: https://splus.pe-bank.jp (Webinar/welfare service site for IT engineers)

[MCEA Holdings Co., Ltd. Overview]

MCEA Holdings Group is an organization consisting of three companies under the philosophy of "maximizing the potential of people and business": PE-BANK Co., Ltd. which conducts IT freelance engineer agency business, Asno System Co., Ltd. an IT service company whose main business is system development, and MCEA Holdings Co., Ltd. which supports group formation and promotes management. Based on the philosophy of coexistence and co-prosperity originating from the "Metropolitan Computer Technician Cooperative" launched primarily by 15 IT freelancers in May 1989, we will continue our efforts to become a valuable company demanded by everyone.

Company Name: MCEA Holdings Co., Ltd.
Representative: President and Representative Director Takeiku Saito
Headquarters Address: Grace Building Sengakujimae, 2-15-8 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Date of Establishment: September 1, 2015
Capital: 100 million yen
Website: https://mcea-hld.jp/