{"id":64386,"date":"2017-09-05T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=64386"},"modified":"2019-03-11T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:52:56","slug":"local-students-get-an-akamai-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/05\/local-students-get-an-akamai-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Local students get an Akamai experience at telescopes on Hawai\u2018i Island and Maui"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/system-akamai-interns-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Interns standing behind a podium\" width=\"676\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/system-akamai-interns-2017.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/system-akamai-interns-2017-260x155.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System were among the 29 participants in the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/akamaihawaii.org\/internships\/\">Akamai Internship Program<\/a> that gives college students from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> an opportunity to gain a summer work experience at an observatory, company or scientific\/technical facility in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The students spent the eight-week program working on research projects with mentors at a variety of <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> facilities on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island and Maui including the telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakal\u0101. The projects ranged from engineering to information technology to statistical data analysis. <\/p>\n<h2>2017 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Akamai interns<\/h2>\n<h3><strong><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Chun<\/strong>, Characterization of the Intermediate and Baseband Frequency Hardware of the Yuan Tseh Lee Array Telescope<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeri Goodin<\/strong>, Instrument Transfer Shock Reduction Design Concepts for W.M. Keck Observatory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reyn Mukai<\/strong>, Developing a <abbr>VR<\/abbr> Application Modeling the <abbr title=\"Thirty Meter Telescope\">TMT<\/abbr> Observatory for Risk Analysis and Outreach<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kurt Noe<\/strong>, Developing Web Applications for the Management and Monitoring of Data Warehouses<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heather Situ<\/strong>, Designing a Holder for Anodized Aluminum Slit Masks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Akira Vernon<\/strong>, Optimization for the Ray Tracing Algorithm for <abbr>TMT<\/abbr> Adaptive Optics Reconstruction Parameter Generator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daryl Albano<\/strong>, Integrating a Web-Based Interactive Timeline to Inform the Community about the Thirty Meter Telescope Development Process<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brianna Craig<\/strong>, Sea-truthing the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite: Calibration and Validation of Water Quality in West Maui <\/li>\n<li><strong>Chantelle Kiessner<\/strong>, Statistical Evaluation of Polarization Noise Data<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Parep<\/strong>, Building a <abbr>GUI<\/abbr> for the Instrument Performance Calculator for the <abbr>CryoNIRSP<\/abbr> Instrument<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dallas Tada<\/strong>, Creating a Public Database of Star Clusters from the <abbr title=\"Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy\">VISTA<\/abbr> Variable in Via Lactea (VVV) Survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Catherine Sarte<\/strong>, Implementation of a Network and Application Monitoring System for Subaru Telescope\u2019s <abbr>IT<\/abbr> Infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elton Nakagawa<\/strong>, Designing a Mobile Device Management Solution for Gemini Observatory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Roof<\/strong>, Optimizing the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> 2.2-Meter Telescope Engineering Databases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/akamaihawaii.org\/2017-interns\/\">the interns&#8217; projects<\/a> at the Akamai website.<\/p>\n<h2>More on the Akamai Internship Program<\/h2>\n<p>Prior to completing a project, all interns complete a one-week resident intensive preparatory course in Hilo, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island or Kahului, Maui, where they meet the other interns and Akamai\u2019s dedicated staff team who work with interns and mentors throughout the program to ensure a productive experience. Interns get coaching on communications skills, and present their work at the end of the summer at a symposium. Interns are paid a $3200 stipend, and are provided with housing if needed, along with travel from home island to internship site. After completing the program, interns are invited back for occasional workshops, connected to job opportunities, and may apply for a second internship.<\/p>\n<p>Local workforce needs for the astronomy industry are increasing and Akamai prepares local college students for telescope jobs and a broad range of <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> fields. The Akamai Workforce Initiative has had a successful 15 years of building <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8216;s scientific and technical workforce. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/akamaihawaii.org\/internships\/\">Akamai Internship Program<\/a> at the Akamai website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students spent the eight-week program working on research projects with mentors at a variety of <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":64696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[656,61,35,659,313,14,9,59],"class_list":["post-64386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-haleakala","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-stem","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/system-akamai-interns-2017.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64386","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=64386"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74906,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64386\/revisions\/74906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}