{"id":47064,"date":"2016-06-15T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47064"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:16:28","slug":"astronomy-program-for-hawaii-high-school-students-prepares-future-science-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/15\/astronomy-program-for-hawaii-high-school-students-prepares-future-science-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy program for Hawai\u02bbi high school students prepares future science leaders"},"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\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_FoKu9o7BiQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For a decade, a University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a>&#8217;s summer program has attracted middle school and high school students from across the state. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/UHNAI\/HISTAR.html\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Student\/Teacher Astronomy Research<\/a> or <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This program introduces students from across the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> to the basic practices of science,&rdquo; said <strong>Geoff Mathews<\/strong>, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa astronomy instructor. &ldquo;Science is about exploring, going out and discovering new things, adding to humanity&#8217;s understanding of the universe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> alumni have been awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships and awards at science fairs. The program, which recently marked its 10th year, is unique to the extent in which students design and direct their research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Pahoa High School student James Iaukea said, &ldquo;We got to learn about star clusters and galaxies and basic things like that and now we&#8217;re moving into more field-based studies, like I&#8217;m working on my exoplanets right now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa student mentor <strong>Marielle Dela Cruz<\/strong>, will be the first student to graduate from from the campus&#8217; nascent astrophysics program in 2017. &rdquo;My (students&#8217;) project is globular clusters. They have the oldest stars in the universe,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to organizers, <abbr>HI STAR<\/abbr> alumni are not only college and research ready, they are also becoming future leaders in the science, engineering and technology fields that are so important to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the nation.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47080\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-ifa-histar-class-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-ifa-histar-class-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-ifa-histar-class-1-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Institute for Astronomy HI STAR class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"Hawaii Student\/Teacher Astronomy Research\">HI STAR<\/abbr> alumni are college and research ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":47073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[34,35,313,9,56],"class_list":["post-47064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-ifa-histar-class-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064","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=47064"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124715,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions\/124715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}