On August 11,2022 12:08 p.m. (HST), Project IMUA Mission 10 said their bittersweet goodbyes to the departure of their 44 foot tall, camphor-powered sublimation NASA rocket. If you remember our previous post about the coalition of community colleges gathered together under Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium, you’ll remember the teams having to go through months worth of arduous manufacturing and projecting
This past September watch our very own UHCC Project Imua Mission 9 Team soar past the competition taking first place in the EXTREME ALTITUDE Hybrid Motor Competition at the ARLISS rocketry competition in Black Rock, Nevada. The UH Windward Community College Team, consisting of Connor Wilson, Jared Estrada, and Patrick Ng, collaborated with the UH Honolulu Community College team, consisting
The Fall 2019 issue of the UH Magazine for Alumni and Friends, published by the UH Foundation, devoted a page to news of the rocket Project Imua Mission 6 team. Co-captains, from left to right, Mia Fong (HCC) and Katherine Bronson (WCC and UH Manoa) were pictured along with a write-up of the team’s accomplishments at the 2019 NASA student
Project IMUA students from Kaua‘i CC, Honolulu CC, and Windward CC are featured in the NASA News Article “Undergraduate Students Bring Ideas to Reality with Rocket Launch from NASA Wallops”. Also read the UH News Release “UH Community College Students Prepare to Launch Payload from NASA Flight Facility,” and previous UH News on Project Imua. Watch Project Imua on KHON
Project Imua students Debora Pei and Elena Barbour, and faculty advisor Joe Ciotti, were interviewed today–launch day!– on Hawai‘i Public Radio’s Bytemarks Cafe–listen here. Contratulations Project Imua! Photo (left to right) Burt Lum, Elena Barbour, Debra Pei, Cindy Matsuki, Joe Ciotti, and Ryan Ozawa. Photo courtesy of Bytemarks Cafe.
Project Imua (to move forward in Hawaiian) is a joint faculty-student enterprise of four campuses within the University of Hawai‘i Community College system (Honolulu, Kapi‘olani, Kaua‘i and Windward) dedicated to designing, fabricating, and testing small payloads for launch into space. This multi-campus project is funded by a two-year $500,000 grant awarded to the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium under the NASA
Great local coverage of the UH collaborative Project Imua continues as the 16-member team (from four Community College campuses) prepares for the first-ever launch of a UHCC payload into space scheduled for August 11, 2015 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Watch the interview on KHON Wake Up 2Day with News Anchor Jai Cunningham and Debora Pei (HCC).
Project Imua students (left to right) Kalanikapu Copp, Madori Rumpungworn, Elena Barbour, Kala’i Garcia, and Keith Nakamatsu presented their project at the August 15, 2015 ‘IKE Symposium held at the UH Mānoa College of Engineering. ‘IKE (Indigenous Knowledge in Engineering) is a six-campus UH colaboration aimed to increase access to a quality pre-enginering education by focusing on a framework supportive of Native
Great local coverage of the UH collaborative Project Imua continues as the team prepares for the first-ever launch of a UHCC payload into space scheduled for August 11, 2015 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Watch Project Imua students on KITV4 TV morning show. Pictured left to right: Mitch Mikami (KapCC), Marcus Yamaguchi (KauCC) , and Elena Barbour (WinCC) with KITV4 Morning
Great local coverage of the UH collaborative Project Imua continues as the 16-member team (from four Community College campuses) prepares for the first-ever launch of a UHCC payload into space scheduled for August 11, 2015 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Watch the interview on Hawai‘i News Now with Sunrise News Anchor Grace Lee and Kalanikapu Copp (WinCC).