Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2008 - NSK Ltd. (NSK; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and CEO: Seiichi Asaka) has held its first “NSK Company Visit”, a new endeavor to offer hands-on experience of a working environment. The company invited about 100 second graders from Junior High School from Misawa city, in Aomori prefecture to its headquarters on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, for the event.
About 100 second grade pupils attended the event on the day, learning about the NSK Group's global corporate activities and its efforts to reduce the burden on the environment. The students were also given the opportunity to observe some of the most advanced technology , developed by NSK, with the company's cell manipulation system and its human assistant four-legged wheeled robot. As the company designed the visit program to provide a real feel of the endless possibilities that science and technology can bring, the pupils were actually given the chance to operate the cell manipulation system for themselves.
The NSK Company Visit program was developed following the company's corporate advertisement campaign appearance in newspapers from April 2008. A teacher at the Misawa JHS made a request that Japanese firms operating on a global scale provide the opportunity for students to actually visit their companies for work experience, and it was in response to this demand that the NSK Company Visit program was born.
In order for Japan to develop further as a world leader in technology it is important to promote science and technology and NSK believes that to do this, it is essential to train and develop the next generation of science and technology personnel. Amid concerns over a lack of interest in the sciences in recent times and falling academic standards, NSK will continue in its efforts to contribute to social development by working to strengthen interest in the sciences among young people and by striving to promote science.
- See here for more information on NSK's social and environment endeavors.
