{"id":47973,"date":"2016-07-20T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47973"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:32:20","slug":"creating-stem-opportunities-for-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/creating-stem-opportunities-for-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and math\">STEM<\/abbr> opportunities for high school students"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_47999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47999\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy1-260x156.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students working at the Summer Engineering Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Imagine being trapped on Mars with only scant materials available to figure out a way home. For 44 high school students, including two from American Samoa, this was a scenario they had to figure out during the 6-week Summer Engineering Academy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Summer Engineering Academy is designed to engage high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (<abbr>STEM<\/abbr>) careers.<\/p>\n<p>Students learned the basics of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer programming, including electronics, prototyping and writing code. In addition, they were introduced to college study skills, learned about the college admissions and financial aid process, and gained advanced math and science skills.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the summer experience, students met with project engineers during a field trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulutransit.org\/\"><abbr title=\"Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation\">HART<\/abbr> Waipahu Transit Center<\/a>, and heard from organizations such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardofwatersupply.com\/cssweb\/\">Board of Water Supply<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bowersandkubota.com\/\">Bowers and Kubota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpe-hawaii.com\/\">Community Planning and Engineering, Inc.<\/a>, and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summer engineering program was designed to help the students choose a career path in a engineering discipline they enjoy,\u201d said Assistant Professor <strong>Norman Takeya<\/strong>, coordinator of the Summer Engineering Academy. \u201cWith practical, hands-on experiences, students get a first-hand taste of the type of work involved in various engineering careers.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See more photos of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/honolulucc\/sets\/72157670084720221\/\">2016 Summer Engineering Academy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summer Engineering Academy supporters<\/h2>\n<p>This is the fourth year Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community Colleg\">CC<\/abbr> has offered this program that was initially funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p20hawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> P-20<\/a>. This year funding came from Representative Mark Nakashima\u2019s Work Force Development Advisory Committee on <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.hawaii.gov\/\">Department of Labor and Industrial Relations<\/a> (<abbr>DLIR<\/abbr>). Additional funding came from the Fujio Matsuda Technology fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so pleased to partner with Honolulu Community College in giving high school students a hands-on, practical way to gain engineering and computer programming skills,\u201d says <abbr>DLIR<\/abbr> Director Linda Chu Takayama. \u201cThe problem-solving approach used in this project can be applied to any job because it fosters hard work, initiative and teamwork, which are valued by all employers. This project also helps students define their educational and career goals, which make a smoother transition from school to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47986\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy-2016.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy-2016-260x163.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/honolulu-summer-engineering-academy-2016-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Engineering Academy students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s Summer Engineering Academy engages students in a variety of engineering and computer programming skills and activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[182,62,313,71],"class_list":["post-47973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-engineering","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-stem","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47973","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=47973"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174193,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47973\/revisions\/174193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}