A student of Hidehiko Nishikawa's seminar at the School of Faculty of Business Administration won third place overall in the overall championship of S-College 2021 and first place for concept and theme in S-College 2022.

At the S-College (intercollegiate competition for commercialization) Fall Can (competition) held online on Sunday, October 2, 2022, students from the Hidehiko Nishikawa Seminar in the School Faculty of Business Administration received the following awards. Note that the S-College is a year-and-a-half long competition, so the two-year project is running concurrently.

<S-Career 2021 overall winners>.
The team of 4th year students Hibiki Saito, Aika Hirata, Yukihide Miyama, and Rio Masuda planned "Perappu" at S-College 2021, in which 396 students from 28 seminars at 25 universities participated. In the "Overall Competition," which was held on October 2, 2012, students competed based on their commercialization results in the Autumn Competition, where they were awarded third place overall for their commercialization of Perappu.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　From left: Mr. Fukayama, Ms. Masuda, Mr. Saito, Mr. Hirata

Product Description
Perappu" is a product that solves the problem that 94% of piano players have of turning over sheet music while playing.
By simply inserting "Perappu" alternately between pages of sheet music and turning them over by touching the top of the sheet music, you can prevent two sheets of paper from sticking to each other and turn them over one by one. In addition, since it is made of clear sheet material, it does not hide the music sheet and is lightweight at approximately 33g, making it easy to carry around.

For more information on "Perape," please visit> https://store.shimamura.co.jp/ ec/pro/disp/1/mt0135196

Member's comment
Hibiki Saito: "Perape" was inspired by my own long-standing problems when playing the piano. I am very happy to know that there are piano players in the world who have the same problems as I do, and that I was able to create and market a product that will help them enjoy playing the piano even more.

Aika Hirata: There were many more obstacles than the team had imagined in bringing Perappu to the world. When we faced problems that we could not handle on our own, the people who supported us were a great source of support and strength. To all those who were involved, I want to say with confidence, "Perape has become a great product!" I would like to say with confidence!

Seishu Fukayama: I feel that because we had to work hard for more than a year on the product planning, we were able to gain a great sense of accomplishment and learn valuable lessons. I would like to make use of the marketing activities I was able to learn this time and use it for the benefit of the society I will be entering. Thank you very much.

Rio Masuda: I was very happy to hear that people were happy to hold in their hands the product that we had created from scratch after many discussions as a team. I was more than happy to hear that there were people who were pleased with the product that we had created from scratch after many discussions as a team. I am filled with gratitude for the warm words and help from so many people!

<S-College 2022 Concept/Theme 1st Place
The team of 3rd year students Mika Ichihara, Enka Kamaya, Koki Takahashi, and Reina Yamaguchi planned the concept of a "delivered cake" as a DIY product for weddings based on the theme "cardboard product with experience value" at S-College 2022, where 531 3rd year students from 36 seminars at 31 universities participated. The concept was awarded first place in the "Concept Theme" category at the Autumn Conference held on October 2 this year.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　From left: Mr. Yamaguchi, Ms. Kamaya, Mr. Takahashi, Mr. Ichihara

Member's comment
All the members are very happy to have won the first prize for the concept theme this time!
We had a hard time coming up with ideas and things did not go as smoothly as we would have liked, but we persevered and thought things through to the end, and as a result, we were able to present an idea that everyone agreed on.
I am truly grateful to Mr. Nishikawa, Mr. Honjo, my seniors and juniors in the seminar, and my classmates, with whom I had a friendly competition, for helping me to win the first place!
In December, we will actually have the Winter Can competition for the rights to commercialize the product, so I want to do my best for the rest of the year!

<What is S-College?
S-College (Student Innovation College) is an intercollegiate competition among university seminars that aims to actually commercialize products over a period of about 18 months. 123 teams of 396 third-year students from 28 seminars at 25 universities participated in S-College 2021, and proposed product plans in response to themes provided by 8 companies. The teams proposed product plans in response to the themes presented by eight companies. In S-College 2022, held in parallel with S-College 2021, 164 teams of 531 third-year students from 36 seminars at 31 universities participated, proposing product plans for the themes presented by 8 companies.
The teams compete for the concept at the "Autumn Can" (competition) held in October each year, then compete for the right to commercialize their final plans at the "Winter Can" held in December, and compete for the overall winner at the following year's "Autumn Can" based on the results of the product launch.

S-College website https://s-colle.ws.hosei.ac.jp/