{"id":96658,"date":"2019-05-16T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96658"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:48:35","slug":"project-imua-nasa-rookie-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/16\/project-imua-nasa-rookie-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Project Imua rocketry team wins NASA<\/abbr> rookie award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Fourteen students from Honolulu<\/a>, Kapiʻolani<\/span><\/a> and Windward<\/a> Community Colleges and the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a>, from the Project Imua<\/a> Mission 6 team, have been recognized for rocketry excellence.<\/p>\n

The UH<\/abbr> team launched its rocket and payload in Alabama<\/a> in the April 2019 NASA<\/abbr> Student Launch competition<\/a>. UH<\/abbr> won the Rookie Award, given to the top new team in the competition.<\/p>\n

The Project Imua team also finished in the top 10 out of 45 teams in the college\/university division, at No. 9. Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of Akron, Ohio, were the top three finishers.<\/p>\n

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“The real-life engineering skills and confidence that our students developed in this challenging competition will launch them onward to exciting careers,” said Project Imua Manager Joe Ciotti, a professor at Windward Community College. “For them now, not even the sky is the limit.”<\/p>\n