We have been supporting the adult American-football team "Nishinomiya Bruins" since 2014. With the cooperation of the team, as part of our social contribution activities, they participate in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings's social contribution initiative “Hankyu Hanshin Yume/Machi Challenge Team" and we run the following experience sessions every summer vacation. We will continue to provide rich learning opportunities that offer new experiences to the boys and girls who are always up for a challenge and who will lead the future, and support their healthy growth.

Activities of the "Hankyu Hanshin Yume/Machi Challenge Team"

<Let's learn English conversation while enjoying virtual world travel!>
“Let's learn English conversation while enjoying virtual world travel!” was held via Zoom on the 30th floor of Hankyu Grand Building. Using satellite images, students traveled around the world, answered English quizzes, and practiced pronunciation with their teachers.As time went by, even the nervous elementary school students naturally raised their hands to answer questions, and English began to flow smoothly out of their mouths.
･ 2022: It was run during the summer vacation period for elementary school students

<Let's take a trip to a fairy-tale city abroad by virtual!>
“Let's take a trip to a fairy-tale city abroad by virtual!” was held via Zoom on the 30th floor of Hankyu Grand Building.Using satellite images,current tour guide instructors will show the children the cities, greetings, food, and animals that inhabit the world's fairy tales.They also practiced greetings of each country together and tried quizzes of each country.At the end, a commemorative photo was taken with everyone! It was a nice good memory of the summer vacation.
･ 2022: It was run during the summer vacation period for elementary school students

The "Hankyu Hanshin Yume/Machi Challenge Team" has won the following accolades

• FY2014 Won the Good Design Award
• FY2016 Won the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "2016 Youth Experience Activity Promoting Corporation Awards" Special Jury Award
• FY2017 Won the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "8th Career Education Awards" Minister's Award (Grand Prize)
• FY2018 Won the Kids Design Award
• FY2020 Received the highest award "Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" in the MEXT "2020 Youth Experience Activity Promotion Company Awards"

For more information on the Yume/Machi Challenge Team, see here

Past activities

<Let's produce a newspaper to convey the appeal of the Great Buddha of Nara!>
Let's produce a newspaper to convey the appeal of the Great Buddha of Nara! was held on the 30th floor of the Hankyu Grand Building. As the parents and guardians looked on, the challenge team got started! Everyone was greatly interested in the mystery solving quiz about the Great Buddha! One by one, the quiz revealed things that were not taught in school. In the questionnaire, some answered that they "would like to go and see the Great Buddha," and it seems that their interest in history was deepened.
･ 2019

<Let's be cheerleaders!>
At the Nishinomiya City Center, we ran cheerleading experience lessons, in the morning and afternoon, in which female elementary school students participated. Under the guidance og active cheerleaders, the girls engaged in warming up exercises before enjoying dancing together. Finally, they were divided up into groups, and a mini recital was held to show the results of their practice sessions to friends and parents.
・2014 to 2019

<Let's play flag football!>
A flag football experience was held at the Nishinomiya City Central Sports Park Multipurpose Ground. Flag football is a game based on American football, where instead of tackling your opponent, you take the flag attached to their back, and the kids worked up a sweat running around the field energetically with players from the Nishinomiya Bruins.
・2014 ・2015

<Basketball Clinic>
We ran a basketball clinic with players from the professional basketball team “Osaka Evessa”. The kids played a quick game to get familiarize themselves and listened intently to the instructions from the players during practice.At the end of each of them, the children seriously challenged the players of Osaka Evessa in a mini-game! By running around as hard as they could when playing, and cheering loudly when supporting their team, they surely created some wonderful summer vacation memories.
・2008 to 2012