Kobe City: High School of Science and Technology Japan Microcomputer Car Rally 2024 National

Press Release (February 2, 2024)
Kobe Municipal High School of Science and Technology
Our school has been involved in the microcomputer car rally competition in classes and club activities since 2004, when the school opened, and has participated in the national competition almost every year.
We are pleased to announce that our third-year students won the Camera Class division of the Japan Microcomputer Car Rally 2024 National Competition held in Nagano Prefecture on December 27 and 28 last year. This is the first time that a student from our school has won the championship.

What is a microcomputer car rally competition?

It is a competition in which participants compete to see how long it takes a vehicle-type robot, which reads the course using sensors and controls the steering wheel and speed using a microcomputer with a program written by the students, to drive autonomously from the start to the finish line.

Japan Microcomputer Car Rally 2024 National Competition

Organizer: National Association of Technical High School Principals
Purpose: To promote the acquisition of the basics and fundamentals of mechatronics technology, to foster a spontaneous and creative attitude toward learning, to promote problem-solving education through manufacturing, and to foster dreams for new technologies through the microcomputer car rally competition.
Division: Advanced Class, Basic Class, Camera Class*
*From the 2019 competition, Camera Class (a division that controls the car body based on information captured by a camera) has been newly established, allowing students to learn the basics related to automatic driving technology, which is currently the focus of attention.

Winner

, Camera Class category, 3rd grade student, Kobe Municipal High School of Science and Technology

Winner’s work (microcomputer car)

Car name: “Final Fantasia”

Reference Efforts this year

Participated

in the Microcomputer Car Rally Kinki Regional Competition on Sunday, December 3, 2023 (4 Advanced Class, 5 Basic Class, 3 Camera Class). As a result, they were awarded Best 8 in Advanced Class, 3rd in Basic Class, and 1st to 3rd in Camera Class.
From the results, the top one in each of the Basic Class and Camera Class competed in the Japan Microcomputer Car Rally 2024 held on December 27 (Wed.) and 28 (Thu.), 2023. As a result, the student won the first prize in the Camera Class.
The winning student had been participating in the Camera Class since his first year. His first year, the rally was cancelled due to a new type of coronavirus infection, and his second year, he lost the rally because he did not finish the race and did not have a record.