Abstract
This paper presents hands-on activities concerning science and engineering held in local city where teachers are students of Matsue College of Technology and participants are elementary school children and lower secondary school children. In these activities, children experience scientific experiments, and the college students improve their communication skills. The curriculum of Colleges of Technology focuses on technical ability and knowledge, but offers fewer opportunities for cultural sophistication and communication skill trainings. During the hands-on activities, the students got more chances of plainly communicating their technical knowledge to children and of deeply reaffirming their own technical studies. The children participants were vastly satisfactory with the hands-on activities and their parents gave favorable feedback. The hands-on classes were also favorably evaluated by the college students involved with them.
