National Institute of Technology(KOSEN), Oyama College

Academic Calendar

First Semester

April 3 Entrance Ceremony
3-4.10 Orientation for Freshmen
4 Opening Ceremony
7 Beginning of First Semester
10 Regular Checkup
24 Anniversary of the School
May 14 Recommendatory Entrance Examination for Advanced Courses
21 First Semester Ballgame Tournament
June May30-6 Midterm Examination
14 Entrance Examination for Advanced Courses
22 1st to 4th Graders’ Parent-Teacher’s Meeting
28 Open Campus
July 6  1st to 4th Graders’ Parent-Teacher’s Meeting
August July30-4 Terminal Examination
12-Sep.19 Summer Vacation

Entrance Ceremony

Second Semester

September 24 Beginning of Second Semester
October 22 Second Semester Ballgame Tournament
November 1-2 Koryo Festival(College Festival)
6 60th Anniversary Commemorative Class
15 Enrollment Examination to Fourth Year,
Advanced Course Entrance Examination by Special Selection Methods for Working Students
18-25 Midterm Examination
25 60th Anniversary Commemorative Lecture
December 25-Jan.2 Winter Vacation
January 15 Recommendatory Entrance Examination
February 2-5 Terminal Examination
8 Entrance Examination
25-Mar.31 Spring Vacation
March 24 Graduation Ceremony

Information about Contests

1. KOSEN Robot Contest
ROBOCON provides an opportunity for young students who wish to become engineers to experience the pleasure of realizing ideas or manufacturing objects vying with others with their original ideas and technology. This event has attracted much attention from a wide stratum of people as many are surprised at the flexible creative abilities the students show in the robots they present, and this event has impressed many with the serious efforts shown by students. (Commonly known as ROBOCON)

2. KOSEN Programming Contest
This is a competition with ideas and their realization related to information technology (IT). The originality and creativity shown here are highly acclaimed by the IT industry and related fields of the organizing professional societies. (Commonly known as PROCON)

3. KOSEN Design Competition
Participants in this competition are mainly students majoring in civil engineering and architecture of technical colleges across the country, and this event aims to make students able to propose ideas for improvements to the living environment by offering solutions to a wide range of problems existing in everyday life situations. (Commonly known as DEZACON)

4. The Annual English Presentation Contest for Students in KOSEN
This event is comprised of a “Single contest” and a “Team contest”, and it is a competition for presentation and speech skills in English under the slogan “Students of technical colleges for fluency in English” to promote globalization of the perspectives of students who will play important roles in the industry of the future. An annual event where participants present high-level performances. (Commonly known as PRECON)