July 13            AstroTalk at 4 pm

July 16-19       1st Hawaii International Micro Robot Conference

July 17            FREE Origami workshop & Brushbot Demonstration at 6:30pm

July 17            Maunakea Skies lecture series at 7 pm

July 19            1st Hawaii International Micro Robot Tournament at 1:15pm

July 20-22       STARBASE Hawaii "Intro to Flight" Program

The first-ever Hawaii International Micro Robot Conference and Tournament will be held at 'Imiloa in July.  The event offers a FREE and open to the public workshop on origami followed by a bipedal robot demonstration on Saturday, July 17 at 6:30pm. 

 

Dr. Hidenori Ishihara, a robotics professor from Kagawa University of Shikoku, Japan, will be presenting a workshop entitled, "Origami: From the Traditional Play to the Technology" in the Earl and Doris Bakken Moanahoku Hall.  Dr. Ishihara first introduced Waiakea High School and other Hawai'i schools to micro robots and is co-chair of the 1st Hawaii International Micro Robot Conference and Tournament. 

 

Click here for more information on "Origami: From the Traditional Play to the Technology."

 

The origami workshop will be followed by a demonstration of programmable bipedal robots.  The demonstration will be presented by Mr. Hideaki Matsutani, a technical teacher from Meinan Technical High School in Nagoya, and Ms. Risa Saito, a junior at Shizuoka Futaba High School.  Seating is very limited and will be first-come, first-served.

The Hawaii International Micro Robot Conference and Tournament will be culminated by the micro robot tournament on Sunday, July 19, starting at 1:15 p.m. in the Earl and Doris Bakken Moanahoku Hall. 

 

Students from Waipahu High School, Kalani High School, Kohala High School, Roosevelt High School, Waiakea Intermediate School, Waiakea High School, and Farrington High School along with representatives from industry and higher education are among the participants. 

 

Sponsors are the County of Hawaii Office of Research and Development, Friends of Hawai'i Robotics, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center, Subaru Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, Waiakea High School's Robotics Club, LETry Robot, Innovation FIRST, and UH Manoa's College of Engineering and Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium.

 

For more information, please contact Art Kimura, Hawaii Space Grant Consortium at art@higp.hawaii.edu.

Marimba Performance

I liked the experiments, and learning Marimba songs.

 

My favorite thing about camp was that I made many friends and that I got to look through a microscope.

 

My favorite thing about camp was we got to build motors. 

You guys are making a tremendous impact and contribution for the next generation of girls in sparking and furthering their interest and understanding in the sciences!  Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts!  Thank you for continuing to put out some really awesome programs that make a difference!

 

First rate.  My son really enjoyed everything.  What a wonderful experience for the boys in this community.  Everything was well organized, well planned, fun, interactive, learned.  Homerun!  Thank you!

 

• Mercury is challenging this month, but you might catch it right after sunset mid-month.

• Venus is high in the west at sunset and is visible for about 3 hours after the Sun goes down. 

• Mars is high in the south at sunset and visible the first half of the night.  It has dimmed significantly from its bright appearance in January.

• Jupiter is visible in the morning prior to sunrise, rising around 1am.  Try using binoculars to spot the four Galilean Moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. If you have a telescope see how many bands of clouds you can count.

• Saturn is overhead at sunset.  The rings continue to open up making them more and more spectacular each month this year. It will set around midnight.

• Earth is at Aphelion on July 6th.  This is our FARTHEST point from the Sun in our elliptical orbit.  Many people mistakenly think that we are close to the Sun in Summer and far away in Winter, when really the opposite is true. Our distance has NO effect on our seasons.  Instead it is the tilt of the Earth which causes these changes.

• The Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on July 28th it is a minor shower with about 15-20 meteors visible per hour in the early morning.
  
    

Date                                Event

 

Saturday, July 3          Ka'awela (Jupiter) 7° south of the Moon

 

Sunday, July 4            Kaloakukahi (Last Quarter Moon) at 4:35am HST

 

Tuesday, July 6          Earth at Aphelion - farthest point from the Sun

 

Sunday, July 11          Muku (New Moon) at 9:40am HST

 

Monday, July 12          Ukaliali'i (Mercury) 4° north of the Moon

 

Wednesday, July 14     Hokuloa (Venus) 6° north of the Moon

 

Friday, July 16            Hoku'ulapina'au (Mars) 6° north of the Moon

                               Makulu (Saturn) 8° north of the Moon

 
Sunday, July 18          'Olekukahi (First Quarter Moon) at 12:11am HST

 

Saturday, July 24        Ka'awela (Jupiter) appears stationary

 

Sunday, July 25          Hoku (Full Moon) at 3:37pm HST 

 

Wednesday, July 28     Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower 

 

Saturday, July 31        Ka'awela (Jupiter) 7° south of the Moon 

Please join the University of Hawai'i at Hilo Astrophysics Club for this month's AstroTalk by Dr. Frantz Martinache of Subaru Telescope.  
 

This is a FREE event.  Sponsored by the University of Hawai'i at Hilo Astrophysics Club, this talk will be held at 'Imiloa's Earl and Doris Bakken Moanahoku Hall on Tuesday, July 13 from 4:00 to 5:00pm. 

 

-An engraved nameplate on the back of one or more planetarium seat(s)

-A tax deduction for 100% of your donation

-Permanent recognition at the entrance to the planetarium on the planetarium

 donor plaque

-Listing on the Makahiki donor wall in our atrium

Name one seat for $3,000, two seats for $5,000, or four seats for $10,000.  Payments can be arranged via a pledge payment plan.  Hurry and reserve your seat now!  Many of the seats have already been named - there are less than 30 left of the 120 total and once they're gone, they're gone!