A national collaboration advocating for women of color in STEM pathways is coming to Hawaiʻi. The annual Women of Color STEM Entrepreneurship Conference is scheduled March 18–20 on Hawaiʻi Island. Registration is available online. This year’s conference aims to...
Above left: Students learn about plastic waste during a Fish Tank kick-off workshop on Jan. 11. PC: NexTech. Students participating in the first annual NexTech Fish Tank competition must solve a looming problem in Hawaiʻi: plastic pollution. Last year, the County of...
Above: Students of the 2019 STARS Program show their graduation certificates on the last day of the week-long space and science camp at the HI-SEAS habitat on Mauna Loa. The Women’s STARS (STEM Aerospace Research Scholars) program coordinated by PISCES has been...
Above: The Keaʻau High School Cougar Techs team took home the Excellence Award, the highest honor presented during the VEX Robotics State Championship held Jan. 11. Credit: Hawaiian Electric Two Hawaiʻi Island robotics teams will compete in the 2020 VEX World...
Above: Summer-Dawn Chamberlain (left), a STARS program graduate, works alongside PISCES Geologist Kyla Edison to understand how basalt grain size data can be translated into visual formats. A Waiākea High School student who attended the STARS (STEM Aerospace Research...
Above: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa undergrad Schelin Ireland at her NASA-JPL workstation where she ran tests on SHERLOC. Photo: NASA-JPL-Caltech/Kim Orr. Schelin Ireland (left) and Marianna Oka (right—a student of Kamehameha Schools’ Kapalama campus), suited...
