{"id":18709,"date":"2013-08-02T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:02:27","slug":"high-school-engineers-showcase-their-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/02\/high-school-engineers-showcase-their-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"High school engineers showcase their skills"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Sixty aspiring engineers showcased their skills as a part of the Summer Engineering Academy at Honolulu Community College<\/a>. The visual events included a demonstration of their self-constructed drumming robots, launching of carbon fiber rockets and 3-D printer replicas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to provide high school students with this unique summer learning opportunity at Honolulu Community College,\u201d says Karen Lee, Executive Director, Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> P-20 Partnerships for Education<\/a>. \u201cWe are supportive of STEM<\/abbr> initiatives that help students explore their science and math interests while exposing them to life on a college campus. Both of these components are essential to their knowledge of what it means to be college- and career-ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students range from sophomores to seniors, representing schools such as: \u02bbAiea<\/span>, Campbell, Castle, Damien, Farrington, Hilo, \u02bbIolani<\/span>, Kahuku, Kaimuki, Kaiser, Kalaheo, Kalani, Kamehameha, Kapolei, McKinley, Mililani, Moanalua, Radford, Roosevelt, Scared Hearts Academy, Wai\u02bbanae<\/span> and Waipahu.<\/p>\n

The program is designed to teach applied engineering skills that include mechatronics; a multidisciplinary field of engineering that integrates various areas to optimize a product\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n

Read the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty high school students participating in the Summer Engineering Academy at Honolulu Community College celebrate the program success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[182,306,62,313],"class_list":["post-18709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-engineering","tag-hawaii-p-20","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-stem","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t