{"id":83687,"date":"2018-08-27T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T23:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=83687"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:58:04","slug":"hawaii-cc-akamai-workforce-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/27\/hawaii-cc-akamai-workforce-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u02bbi CC<\/abbr> STEM<\/abbr> students gain experience in astronomy sector"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
\"Three
Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr> students Julina Lee, left, and Malcolm Chun, center, with Tom Winegar, an Akamai mentor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> students put their science and technology skills to use in the astronomy sector this summer as part of the Akamai Workforce Initiative<\/a>. The student internships culminated in community presentations of their projects on August 9 and 10 on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Chun<\/strong>, an electronics technology<\/a> student at Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr>, worked at the Institute for Astronomy on a project to upgrade the system that opens and closes 22,000-pound doors on the UH<\/abbr> 2.2m Telescope<\/a> dome.<\/p>\n

Chun said his experience shows the “Akamai Workforce Initiative is an invaluable experience that serves up real-life challenges that prepare you for a career in science, technology, engineering and math fields.”<\/p>\n

Julina Lee<\/strong>, who graduated from the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr> information technology<\/a> program in May, interned at the Subaru Telescope<\/a>. She worked on a project to modify how images taken at the summit at night are transferred to astronomers.<\/p>\n

Noah Levine<\/strong>, also an information technology student, interned at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope<\/a>. He worked on a project to help monitor the electricity used during general operations at the observatory on the summit of Maunakea.<\/p>\n

“The end product is a group of webpages grouped by equipment on Status Server that displays current, voltage and power factor information, both real-time and over a past interval, pulled from the energy monitors in table and graph form,” according to Levine\u2019s description of the project.<\/p>\n

Lee and Levine plan to pursue bachelor\u2019s degrees in information technology, and Chun wants to seek a career in telescope instrumentation when he graduates from Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

—By Thatcher Moats<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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