The Service Creation Awards 2023 was held to solicit ideas for new services from high school students nationwide, with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of service creation in society. This year, a total of 954 entries were submitted from 25 schools across the country about "episodes of 'problems' experienced in everyday life."
The submitted works were comprehensively evaluated to determine the winners based on the following criteria: "Is the problem shared by many people?", "Has the problem already been solved by some company?", "Is the idea or perspective unique?", "Was the episode described in detail?", and "Is the writing accurate and easy to understand?".
Results of the "Service Creation Awards 2023"
Grand Prize
N/A
Excellence Award (Book card worth 10,000 yen) 1 winner
"When using flea market apps, I would like to have a service that can handle the packaging of items I have listed, solving the problem of not knowing how to pack items or how much it will cost to ship them."
Mr. Kane Tsubaki, Akita Municipal Akita Commercial High School
High school prize (2,000 yen book card) 20 winners
- Seifu High School
Mr. Shigehito Nishida, Mr. Wataru Sakane, and Mr. Hiroaki Yoshikawa - Akita City Akita Commercial High School
Kuwamura Juna, Wakamatsu Misora, Suga Ayaka - Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School
Shinohara Ren - Ibaraki Prefectural Ishioka Commercial High School
Saki Terashima, Aisho Ishikawa, and Jinshin Toyosaki - Hokkaido Sapporo Higashi Commercial High School
Misaku Haga and Kaho Senba - Goshogawara Commercial High School
Nina Sudo - Joso Gakuin High School
Masami Uchino and Misaki Ikeda - Toyama Prefectural Namekawa High School
Moe Sakagami - Kagoshima Municipal Kagoshima Commercial High School
Mr. Hosei Matsuzaki - Niigata Prefectural Hakkai High School
Mami Sato - Sapporo Shinyo High School
Yuto Domon - Miyazaki Prefectural Takanabe High School
Rinka Konishi
Comments (Key points for winning the award)
For this year's Service Creation Awards, as with last year, we sought stories about everyday problems that could lead to new service ideas, rather than new service ideas themselves. After rigorous scrutiny by the judging committee, no work was selected for this year's Grand Prize. For the Excellence Award, we chose a story about a problem with packaging methods when using a flea market app. Although this is a service that companies are already working on, it is difficult to realize and there is a need for it, so we evaluated it as an excellent story this time.
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