{"id":39756,"date":"2015-10-23T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T23:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=39756"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:43:42","slug":"governor-david-ige-commends-project-imua-team-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/23\/governor-david-ige-commends-project-imua-team-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor David Ige commends Project Imua team members"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Governor David Ige with the University of Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>\u2019s Project Imua team members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Governor David Ige presented commemorative plaques to Project Imua team members from University of Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/a> campuses across the state during a recognition ceremony at the State Capitol on October 23. Project Imua (Hawaiian for \u2018to move forward\u2019) is a joint faculty-student enterprise for designing, fabricating and testing payloads.<\/p>\n

The actual Project Imua Payload that flew into space this past summer was also displayed during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

On August 12, 2015 University of Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> community college students watched their scientific\/engineering payload spin into space when a two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was launched from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility<\/a> in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Payloads developed by students from seven higher education programs were aboard the rocket. The Â鶹´«Ã½Community College<\/a> team was the only community college whose payload was selected for this launch.<\/p>\n