Bytemarks

Just got word that The Weather Channel will premiere a new show called From The Edge with Peter Lik on Thursday, March 31st. The first show features footage of Peter trying to capture Pele and the lava flows emanating from Kilauea. The show will premiere at 2:00pm (HST) on Oceanic Channel 121 and again at [...]

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Excitement reigned at this weekend’s 4th Annual FIRST Robotics Competition. This year 32 teams competed in a challenge involved arranging large plastic tubes on a rack. As you can see in the video, there was a short autonomous exercise, the logo sequence and a micro robot challenge in each of the heats. These heats go [...]

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The Hawai‘i Science Olympiad is one of those programs that involves a lot of students, teachers and supporters, fosters a great learning environment and promotes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. But inspite of this the program gets very little media attention. I’d equate this program to the Science Fair or Robotics competitions but relatively [...]

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Just last week Windward Community College reopened their Hōkūlani Imaginarium, now fully equipped with a new Definiti 4K projection system from Sky-Skan. The Definiti 4K provides high-resolution color imagery on a giant dome screen. Two projectors illuminate the dome screen giving it a 3D effect without the glasses. It is quite an enhancement compared to [...]

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Maybe I would have been a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon if summer sessions like this were available back in my day. Pacific Center for Environmental Studies (PaCES) is a six-week intensive course for high school juniors and seniors held at Windward Community College. This past Tuesday, I had a chance to spend an [...]

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Hawaii students were well represented in top honors at this year’s Intel International Science & Engineering Fair held last week in San Jose, CA. Nolan Kamitaki from Waiakea High School and his project, Gene Dosage and Expression in Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines took the Best of Category and First Place in the category of Cellular [...]

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Benny Ron is a one man tour de force. He is the Aquaculture Coordinator at the University of Hawaii and runs Aquaculture Hub. I caught him at Geek Meet III this past weekend at Ala Moana, Magic Island. Accompanying Benny in this photo is Shai Shafir and Yoko. It was fun watching them touting their [...]

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Let’s face it the tsunami won. When I went to sleep on Friday night I heard about the 8.8 earthquake in Chile and the potential for a tsunami. When I woke on Saturday morning about 5:30am I got messages from Roxanne Darling and Todd Ogasawara asking if the Unconferenz 2010 was still on. My initial [...]

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It’s not often that I get to experience the other side of Bishop Museum. By other side I mean the collections side, apart from the main museum exhibits and special events. We got an invitation by Allen Allison, a previous guest on Bytemarks Cafe, to come get a glimpse of their collection from New Guinea. [...]

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