The 6th Annual Hawaii FIRST LEGO League Championships were held on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena. The FIRST LEGO League (FLL) introduces younger students to real world engineering challenges by building LEGO based robots that complete tasks on a thematic playing surface. This year’s theme was medical related with challenges [...]
6th Annual Hawaii FIRST LEGO League Championship
December 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · education, robotics
Tags: education·FIRST LEGO League·robotics·STEM
Kaiyu Maru
November 19th, 2010 · No Comments · education, Japan, ocean
This story ran in the Star Advertiser on Friday and given my fascination with ships and planes I had to see if the Kaiyu Maru was still docked at Aloha Tower. On my morning run I detoured to Aloha Tower Marketplace and sure enough it was still there. My plan was to try and get [...]
Tags: education·Kaiyu Maru·Roosevelt High School
PaCES
July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · education, genomics, science
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 [...]
