{"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":"<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><p><a href=\"http:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjH6kqCa\">Flickr>View the photo gallery on Flicker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sixty aspiring engineers showcased their skills as a part of the Summer Engineering Academy at <a href=\"http:\/\/honolulu.hawaii.edu\">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<p>\u201cWe are excited to provide high school students with this unique summer learning opportunity at Honolulu Community College,\u201d says Karen Lee, Executive Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p20hawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> P-20 Partnerships for Education<\/a>. \u201cWe are supportive of <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering, math\">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<p>Students range from sophomores to seniors, representing schools such as: <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">\u02bbAiea<\/span>, Campbell, Castle, Damien, Farrington, Hilo, <span aria-label=\"Iolani\">\u02bbIolani<\/span>, Kahuku, Kaimuki, Kaiser, Kalaheo, Kalani, Kamehameha, Kapolei, McKinley, Mililani, Moanalua, Radford, Roosevelt, Scared Hearts Academy, <span aria-label=\"Waianae\">Wai\u02bbanae<\/span> and Waipahu.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5889\">Read the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709","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=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174292,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions\/174292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}