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 KHON Living 808 TV morning show. Pictured left to right: Marcus Yamaguchi (KauCC), Kala‘imoana Garcia (KapCC), Suraj Mehta (HonCC), and Elena Barbour
The UH collaborative Project Imua is in the news again as the August launch at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility grows nearer. For more, please see the UH News Release: Project Imua Takes Education Out of This Atmosphere. Several students involved in the project will be interviewed on local TV in the upcoming weeks. Project Imua is supported by UH Mānoa, through
Five University of Hawai‘i Community College students from four campuses, members of a collaboration of 16 students and multiple faculty known as Project Imua, tested their instrument payload at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in preparation for launch in August. For more, please see the UH News Release: Project Imua Payload Tested at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and the Project Imua flickr photo album.
Project Imua students are featured in the Windward Community College News: Engineering Path at WCC is Out of This World. Left to right: Madori Rumpungworn, Cale Mechler, Keith Nakamatsu, Elena Barbour, and Kalanikapu Copp. WCC Project Imua mentors are Jacob Hudson, Jr. and Joseph Ciotti. Photo courtesy of Jacob Hudson, Jr.