The Open Innovation Center Kameoka (OICK), an industry-government-academia collaboration facility in Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, and Kyoto Prefectural Nantan High School (Kameoka City) are taking on the challenge of racing energy-efficient vehicles powered by batteries. With the goal of nurturing the next generation of engineers, high school students studying industrial technology are hard at work building a machine with improved driving performance, hoping to complete the race they had previously abandoned.