{"id":17910,"date":"2013-06-26T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T01:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T22:43:46","slug":"3d-printers-robots-and-rockets-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/26\/3d-printers-robots-and-rockets-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printers, robots and rockets, oh my!"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77s2aaAmfVU\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every summer at Honolulu Community College, students are hard at work, attending classes and working on projects, but they&#8217;re not in college. They&#8217;re high school students, getting a taste of college life, while being exposed to the world of engineering. They are taking part in the Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Summer Engineering Academy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s not just class work and you actually get to apply what you learn to actual projects, which I think is pretty cool,&rdquo; said participant Micah Fujita, a Mililani High School student. <\/p>\n<p>There are 60 public and private school students in the six-week long program that consists of three projects&#8212;building a robot, constructing an air rocket and creating a rubber band powered car with a 3D printer. The students are divided into three groups and spend two weeks on each project. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The robot they are building this year is really cool,&rdquo; said the program director <strong>Norman Takeya<\/strong>, a Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> assistant professor in construction management. &ldquo;It&#8217;s a drumming robot. The robot actually seeks an object to pound drum sticks on and it will create a tune.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am looking forward to the robotics and one new thing is the 3D printing so hopefully that&#8217;s cool,&rdquo; said participant Kristen Balanza, who just graduated from Campbell High School. <\/p>\n<p>The projects expose the students to the different disciplines of engineering. Electrical for the drumming robot, structural and mechanical for the rocket and product engineering for the 3D printing. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;3D Printing is going to revolutionize manufacturing in the very near future,&rdquo; said Takeya. <\/p>\n<p>The academy gives these teenagers an opportunity to work with this revolutionary technology that most adults have only read about or never heard of. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The projects that we do are fun and interesting, and it&#8217;s hands on so, that&#8217;s my kind of thing,&rdquo; said Balanza. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I thought it would be a good experience seeing that I am into building stuff and looking into engineering as a career choice,&rdquo; said Fujita. <\/p>\n<p>There are also field trips to places like the Pearl Harbor shipyard, guest speakers from a variety of engineering professions, and two parent nights where mom and dad learn about filling out college applications and financial aid forms. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We try to cover the whole gamut of activities for everybody and try to make it worthwhile for the students and the parents,&rdquo; said Takeya. <\/p>\n<p>The engineering academy is one of three summer bridge programs for high school students at Honolulu Community College. <\/p>\n<p>The best part of this one? <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You get to take home all your projects,&rdquo; said Balanza. <\/p>\n<p>The Summer Engineering Academy is also 1 of about 15 programs funded by the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> P&#8211;20 Partnerships for Education on University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> campuses. An effort to encourage high school students to pursue higher education and STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty public and private school students participate in Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s six-week long Summer Engineering Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-17910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-honolulu-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910","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=17910"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126933,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions\/126933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}