- Chie Kaminakabeppu
- Enrollment in night school at an advanced age, and enthusiastic study and involvement in extracurricular activities
- Ryouto Yoshioka
- Overturning the accepted wisdom on doodlebugs through summer-vacation observations and experiments
- Kenta Soga
- Competed in the Summer National High-School Baseball Tournament at Koshien Stadium wearing a prosthesis below the knee
- Satomi Kaneko and Shizu Yasuda
- Crossed the islands of Japan by bicycle to raise awareness and understanding of donor cards
- Tamae Watanabe
- Keeping attempting to climb mountains while caring for the daily life and achieving the record of being the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest twice
- Mizuki Taira
- Serving as a source of inspiration by baking bread for rehabilitation
- Masato Oshima
- First in the world to discover an outburst of a WZ Sagittae-type dwarf nova, using his home telescope
