UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover

UH Hilo Robotics Team Tests School’s First Rover

by | Jul 30, 2015

UH-Hilo’s rover “Spock” shown during its very first field test at a PISCES martian simulation site on Hawaii Island. The University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Space Robotics Team has successfully built from scratch the school’s very first planetary mining...
NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo

by | Feb 26, 2015

On any given day, there are an estimated 25 million objects in the skies and nearly 100 tons of meteorites that make contact with Earth’s surface.  While most of them are the size of a grain of sand, objects larger than 1.5 km in diameter could result in catastrophic...
PISCES Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

PISCES Robotics Tech and UHH Team Win Microsoft Challenge

by | Jan 6, 2015

Image Credit: Microsoft Imagine Cup PISCES Robotic Tech Casey Pearring and a fellow team of University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) computer science students claimed victory in the 2015 Pitch Video Challenge in the Microsoft Imagine Cup – a global student technology...
PISCES Hires UH-Hilo Senior and Former Intern

PISCES Hires UH-Hilo Senior and Former Intern

by | Sep 24, 2014

Melissa Adams at the PISCES office, holding a certificate of appreciation from NASA’s Johnson Space Center for recent work identifying rock samples on Mauna Kea. Former PISCES intern Melissa Adams, who recently returned from her 10-week Sally Ride Internship at...