{"id":115234,"date":"2020-04-05T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=115234"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:12:30","slug":"imiloa-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/05\/imiloa-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u02bbImiloa Astronomy Center launches program for families"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_46130\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nc2uOYvWXWs?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"\u02bbImiloa Astronomy Center launches program for families\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/imiloahawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center<\/a> has launched a free online program to help keep <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> engaged during the statewide stay-at-home order. <a href=\"https:\/\/imiloahawaii.org\/imiloaathome\"><span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span>@Home<\/a> is a new educational resource that features hands-on activities and videos about native plants\/species, Hawaiian navigation and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s important for us to continue to put out these kinds of resources to keep our minds stimulated and to keep our minds focused on things outside of the current situation,&rdquo; said <strong><span aria-label=\"Kaiu\">Ka&#699;iu<\/span> Kimura<\/strong>, executive director at <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center. &ldquo;I think it is really important for us even more so now than ever to perhaps connect with our natural and native environment that\u2019s so unique here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115241\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"space show playing in theatre\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-2-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> temporarily closed its doors the center created a free online education program focused on Hawaiian culture and science.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The program includes keiki friendly craft projects like creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/imiloahawaii.org\/mahina\">N&#257; P&#333; Mahina or Hawaiian moon calendar<\/a> and building a <a href=\"https:\/\/imiloahawaii.org\/pulelehua\">Pulelehua Kamehameha Butterfly life cycle carousel<\/a>. <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> staff have also posted mini-presentations about <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\u2019s\">Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> constellations. The center\u2019s mission is to educate the public on parallels between Hawaiian culture and western science.<\/p>\n<p>To help prevent the spread of COVID-19,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/17\/imiloa-temporarily-closing\/\"> <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> closed its doors through April<\/a>. Each year about 100,000 people visit the 40,000-square-foot exhibition and planetarium complex above the Â鶹´«Ã½Hilo campus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Moanikeala\">Moanike&#699;ala<\/span> Nabarro<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115240\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-1.jpg\" alt=\"father and son working on a science project\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hilo-imiloa-at-home-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> works on putting together a Hawaiian moon phase dial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center created a free online hub to educate everyone about Hawaiian culture and science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1411,1416,292,14,56],"class_list":["post-115234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-imiloa-astronomy-center","tag-uh-hilo","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124463,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234\/revisions\/124463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}