Rakusei Junior and Senior High School (Viator Gakuen Educational Foundation) (Location: Kita-ku, Kyoto City; Chairman: Shinji Shimada; Principal: Megumi Oda; hereinafter "Rakusei"), has had its inquiry program "Rakusei Forge" selected for the 2026 fiscal year grant program (Category 1: Leading Educational Programs) by the Mitsubishi Mirai Ikusei Foundation (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Chairman: Shunichi Miyanaga). This selection includes a three-year financial grant (84 programs were selected out of a total of 436 applications across all categories). In response, Rakusei will officially launch the "SDGs Frontier Project," a socially connected program in collaboration with the Panasonic Group (Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic Operational Excellence Co., Ltd.), as a regular curriculum for second-year high school students. What Rakusei's Inquiry Aims For: Building a "Foundation for Life," Not Rushing into Academia The "Comprehensive Inquiry" time (hereinafter "Inquiry") at Rakusei is not solely aimed at providing early experience in university research. Through Inquiry, students acquire the skills of the "basic inquiry process": finding their own questions, setting challenges for solutions, gathering information, organizing and analyzing it, and finally summarizing and presenting it. By applying this process to their own life design, students aim to develop the ability to discover what they "like" and who they "want to become," and to give form to those aspirations. The school believes that Inquiry can support students in building the "foundation for their lives." Acquiring Basic Inquiry Process Skills: Students will hone their "thinking muscles" through a multi-layered six-year cycle of scrutinizing information, posing questions, collaborating with others, and implementing solutions in society. This is a universal skill. Inquiry as a Result of Future Design: Students who master this "framework" at Rakusei will ignite their own aspirations (their "heart's engine"). As