Programming Boot Camp (PBC) | Entrepreneurship (Leadership, Value Creation) Courses | 東京科学大学　リーダーシップ教育課程

Proposing new web service that should be nice to have, forming a team, then intensively developing a web application from scratch over a four-day period (including 3 day camp)

Overview

This course is a program positioned at the last "Social Implementation Stage" of the three stages of entrepreneurship education: "Motivation and Awareness-raising Stage," "Competency Formation Stage," and "Social Implementation Stage." To create new web service, it is necessary to logically and comprehensively demonstrate the so-called "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" elements, such as extracting problems and setting issues, developing new ideas and prototypes, empathizing with users, verifying hypotheses, and sharing social trends, needs, and visions.

This program is the perfect program for you to demonstrate the "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" you have cultivated so far and develop the knowledge and experience to implement new value in society.

In Programming Boot Camp (PBC), you will work on development as a team project while building consensus through logic. You will prototype your ideas with users in mind and experience implementing new value in society.

This program is conducted in a “hackathon” style, where participants propose a web service that they “wish existed,” form a team, and develop it from scratch in a short period of four days, including a three-day camp. Six to eight professional web application development experts will accompany you and support you.

This program is conducted in a “hackathon” style, where participants propose a web service that they “wish existed,” form a team in advnace, and develop it from scratch in a short period of 4 days, including a 3-day camp. Six to eight professional web application development experts will accompany you and support you.

The main purpose of this program is to strengthen your “leadership” and “entrepreneurship” in order to develop new value and set it in society through your activities, such as proposing a web service and developing it in a team in a limited time.

In light of the recent widespread use of AI tools in app development, we will be holding a series of four AI development tool workshops in November—prior to the full-scale launch of programming work—and we encourage those interested to attend.

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We strongly recommend that those interested in this program attend a briefing session (available both in-person and online) beforehand. The 3rd and final briefing session will be held on coming 7/Oct(Wed) 18:00 - 19:00. Advance registration is required to attend.

Please visit the link below for session details and the registration form.

📂 Category	Innovation, Initiative, Motivation
📌 Keywords	Issue Identification, Hypothesis Testing、New Business Development, Programming, Prototype
🎯 Objectives	・Experience working as a team to materialize (prototype) a new web service idea in a short period of time. ・Demonstrate your own "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" to gain knowledge on implementing new value in society.
🌐 Language	Japanese (English support available)
👥 Target Participants	Graduate & Undergraduate Students
🗓 Format	4 full day sessions (including 3 day camp)
✅ Past & Upcoming Sessions	#1: Oct 21 (Wed) 18:00–21:00: Information Exchange & Team Building Meeting #1 #2: Nov 4 (Wed) 18:00–21:00: Information Exchange & Team Building Meeting #2 #3: Dec 12 (Sat) 10:00–18:00: Development Work (1st Session) #4: Dec 18 (Fri) – Dec 20 (Sun) 9:00–19:00: Development Work (2nd Session / 3-Day camp) Held annually since FY2015
📍 Venue	#1 & #2: O-okayama, S4-201 #3: O-okayama, S4-202/203 #4: 3 day camp at Cross Wave Funabashi, a seminar house located in Funabashi, Chiba prefecture
🌟 Recommended for	・Those who want to demonstrate their own "leadership" and "entrepreneurship" ・Those who want to create a new web service ・Those who are interested in developing web applications
📊 Points	-
🎟️ Capacity	25-30 participants

Main Content

Participants will propose new web application ideas, form teams with members who agree with them, identify development requirements, determine the division of roles, and experience developing a web application that can withstand user verification from scratch in a short period of time. Participants will recognize that sharing objectives, identifying the appealing points and user benefits of the proposed web application, and thoroughly confirming development items, milestones, and development goals among members are necessary for development in a short period of time.
By taking into consideration the fact that development will be intensive in a short period of time, development items will be reviewed depending on the development status, questions can be asked as they arise, and the programming languages and ability levels of the participating students will vary, the development environment in this course should be: (1) 3 days of training camp format, and (2) multiple mentors of web application development experts will be on-site to provide immediate support and advice to the student teams.
In addition, for those who wish, we also offer courses on non-code tools (for programming beginners) and on connecting to databases (for students with some knowledge) prior to the start of this course, so that participants can participate regardless of their programming experience or knowledge.

Facilitator

Junichiro Ueno, Mentor Team Leader
COO, Scale out Inc.

He has experience in programming and development management. He co-founded Guildworks Inc. with the motto of "making the right things correctly," and developed many new business products in accordance with agile development. He served as representative until 2021. He then founded JuM Design LLC, provided support for new business development for large companies, and developed the company's own products as a director of a VR startup.

Mentors from GuildWorks Inc.

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Past Event Records

Voices from Participants

Even if you have no experience in programming or web development, you will be taught carefully and patiently, so if you are even slightly interested, I recommend participating in PBC. I think the experience of shaping your ideas from scratch, which you cannot get from regular research activities, will be very stimulating and meaningful. (M2)
Recommended for those who want to learn databases and data science in a fun way in a short period of time and use it to experience app development. (M1)
Thanks to the support of experts who taught me carefully, even though I am a programming beginner, I was able to proceed with development efficiently. It was also very attractive that we could experience actual app development in a short period of time while working together as a team by utilizing the no-code platform! (M1)
It was a very intense three days, but it was very fun to exchange ideas with my team members and put our ideas into shape. (M2)