Maui County Healthcare Exploration Day at UH John A Burn's School of Medicine

This past Friday, November 18, 2022 - our STEMworks team hosted 20 Maui County High School students in partnership with JABSOM Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to a tour at JABSOM.

Our students flew in the early morning with their teacher from Maui, Lana’i, and Moloka’i.

After a tour of JABSOM, our students were able to participate in hands on learning including a Simulation Lab with a real life scenario, practiced taking vital signs, and an arm casting practice. Our students were also exposed to 5 different Industry Professionals including: Dr. Tom of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Wee a Pediatrician, Jesse Thompson doing 3D Printing in the Healthcare field, Dr. Mashima from Speech Pathology, and Devon Cataldi of the UH JABSOM Cancer center research.

Mahalo to all who made this day a success, our friends at JABSOM AHEC, the food service staff at Pura Sina (at JABSOM), and the teachers who came along with their students. We hope to host future Healthcare Exploration Days.

September STEMworks Solutions Challenge winner! In partnership with Legacy for Life

Today we announced the winner of our STEMworks Solutions Challenge Winner in Partnership with Legacy of Life. Leesa of Mililani High School took home First Place! Her Solution, the Organ Recovery Time Calculator, is a website that automates the calculation of time between each step of the organ recovery process from the time the surgery starts to the time the organ departs on a flight to a potential receiver.

Using several different APIs the Organ Recovery Time Calculator will allow the Legacy of Life team to select a flight, identify the airport and hospital, and calculate the time each step needs to be started for a successful organ recovery and donation.

Leesa will receive a paid 6-week internship with the Legacy of Life team to develop and test her solution, as well as an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset loaded with a 3D Organ VR Experience. Congratulations Leesa and Mahalo to STEMworks Facilitator Mr. Kikugawa

Mahalo to all who participated, our facilitators, and our partner Legacy for Life.

An Exciting Space Exploration Day on September 30, 2022

This past Friday, September 30, the STEMworks team with support of the AMOS Conference Team hosted 120 Maui County Middle schoolers and their teachers to Space Exploration Day at the Wailea Beach Resort.

The Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, September 27-30, 2022, is the premier technical conference in the nation devoted to space situational awareness/space domain awareness.

Our students started their day with an engaging talk from Astronaut Scott “Scooter” Altman. Astronaut Scooter Altman showcased many fun pictures and videos from his 4 trips to space! With a lively Q&A session with him to follow.

We then walked around the AMOS exhibit hall, where our students visited with 4 of the 9 participating exhibitors. Mahalo to our participating exhibitors for engaging talks and activities for our students.

What a whirlwind of a day for our team, students, high school volunteers, and teachers – Mahalo to all for making the day happen!

Participating Middle Schools: Maui Waena Intermediate, Lokelani Intermediate, Lana’i Elementary and High School, Hawaii Technology Academy – Maui, Lahaina Intermediate, and Moloka’i Middle School.

Participating Exhibitors: AFRL & AFOSR, The Boeing Company, CACI, Civil Air Patrol, COMSPOC, Institute for Astronomy (UH), Lockheed Martin, Privateer, and SAIC.

STEMworks Solutions Challenge PD - Mahalo Summer Rankin!

The STEMworks team wanted to offer our big Mahalo to Summer Rankin who spoke with our STEMworks Solution Challenge for September’s Professional Development that was held yesterday, September 22.

Summer is a Senior Lead Data Scientist in the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) at Booz Allen Hamilton in their Honolulu Office. Her projects often involve deep learning, signal processing, NLP, anomaly detection, and performance measurement.

It was a treat to hear from Summer about her journey to Data Science and her helpful insight to our students for creating solutions for the Legacy for Life Challenge.

Mahalo Summer!

For more opportunities like this, please keep an eye out for our October STEMworks Soutions Challenge involving Kama’aina Tech Solutions!