New programmes, including tourism training, jewellery design and skateboarding, were organized. Students in local programmes did voluntary work for food-rescuing charities, built models with application of ‘Internet-of-Things’ and big data, sailed in the sea, raced drones with basic pilot training and tried out experiments about food science. Outbound programmes offered valuable opportunities for the students to fly to Singapore to enrich their STEM knowledge or tasted the rural life of the Japanese through living with their host families in Kyushu.