Sunday, July 19, 2015 University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (UHH)

Arrival: PAES International Participants & Check-in at University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Hale Kehau Dormitory

17:30-18:15 Welcome Dinner for International Participants (UHH Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

DORMITORY

DINING HALL

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING

Imiloa Astronomy Center

Monday, July 20, 2015 ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i & Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

06:45-07:45 Breakfast (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

09:00 Transport to ʻImiloa

09:30 2015 PAES Registration (ʻImiloa)

10:00-10:15 09:55 Welcoming Oli (Kamehameha High School) (Planetarium)

Ka’iu Kimura, Imiloa Astronomy Center, Art Kimura, Hawaii Space Grant Consortium,

University of Hawaii Manoa

10:15 – 10:45 Reaching for the Stars (Planetarium)

Kaialiʻi Kahele, Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii Air National Guard

Kaialiʻi Kahele is the executive director of Paʻa Pono Miloliʻi. A 1992 graduate of Hilo High School, Kai

attended the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa where he received a BS in education. Inspired as a young child by

Hawaii astronaut Ellison Onizuka and Hokuleʻa navigator Mau Piailug, he became an Air Force instructor

pilot and commercial pilot for Hawaiian Airlines. He has an extensive background in organizational

leadership, public speaking & building effective teams. An affiliate faculty member at the University of Hawaiʻi

at Hilo, he lives in Hilo with his wife Maria and daughters ʻAleʻa & ʻIolana.

10:45 – 11:00 The Science Case (Sandra Dawson, Thirty Meter Telescope)

11:00 – 11:45 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Art and Rene Kimura)

Using Palm Pipes, compose a song to the tune Twinkle Twinkle Star.

Aquarius: Zain Karmali, Aparna Chandgothia, Nanako Horii, Chris Tabor, Lillian Waikiki, Misaki

Yamamoto, Cole DeSilva, Julie Wang

Aries: Isabella Zhang, Shreyasi Ghosh Ray, Go Ajiki, Sarah Mumbert, Charles Correia, Yuto Miwa,

Jonathan Uhlmann, Shawn Yang

Capricorn: Olin Webb, Archita Poddar, Mayu Aizawa, Emily Bishop, Kaimi Kahihikolo, Konomi

Toda, Kehan Yang

Pisces: Justin Wilke, Mousumi Patra, Naoki Matsubara, James Bishop, Michelle Correia, Garry

Meiklejohn, Matthew Eftink, Xiaobin Xu

11:45 Vans depart for lunch (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch/prepare clothing for field trip

12:45 Board Bus (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

13:00 Depart for Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

13:45 – 17:30 Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

17:30-18:00 Mauna A Wakea: A Geological Perspective

Hawai‘i VolcanoeDr. Jim Kauahikaua, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, USGS

(Kilauea Military Camp Koa room)

How the islands were formed, how the volcanoes develop with a particular emphasis on Mauna Kea based on

decades of geologic mapping and analysis as well as recent geophysical studies and drilling.

Graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Pomona College, and the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Highest degree

is PhD in geophysics. Have worked for the USGS for nearly 40 years and was Scientist in Charge of the

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory for the past 10 years. Field of study include lava and hazards.

18:00 –19:00 Dinner (Kīlauea Military Camp)

19:00 – 20:00 Night viewing, Halemaumaui eruption (Thomas A. Jaggar Museum)

20:00 Depart for UHH Hale Kehau Dormitory

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 UHH Science & Technology Building

06:45-07:45 Breakfast (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

08:30 Walk to nearby UHH Science & Technology Building, room 118

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome/Briefing (Art Kimura)

09:15 – 09:55 Water in Asteroids: A Story of Our Origin and Our Future

Dr. Heather Kaluna, Institute for Astronomy University of Hawaii Manoa

The main belt asteroids contain water which closely resembles the water we have here on Earth. The ices and

minerals on these asteroids not only tell us about the origin of Earth's oceans, but also serve as a potential fuel

source for future space travel.

Dr. Heather Kaluna was born and raised in Pahoa of Hawai'i Island and recently completed her PhD in

Astronomy at University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

10:00 – 11:15 “Indigenous Engineering” Rope Making Workshop (Kamehameha High School)

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word engineering as “the application of scientific and

mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and

economical structures, machines, processes, and systems”. Nowhere in this definition does it say that the

resulting technology must have wires and be electrically powered.

When one thinks of engineering, one does not think of simple machines, such as pulleys, levers, wedges, and

wheels. Nor do simple devices-fasteners, ropes, nails, screws, and glues, which are key components of all

technologies, come readily to mind. Ropes were an important technology in the lives of pre-contact Hawaiians.

Ropes were used in sailing, home building, fishing, and farming, to name a few applications.

Traditional ropes in Hawai`i were made of plant material. Fibers from olona, niu (coconut), ukiuki, and

lauhala (pandanus) were braided together in an overlapping fashion to produce a single strand of the necessary

length. To make stronger ropes, these strands were woven into ropes of varying strands; the strength of the rope

being dependent upon the number of strands. These ropes, unlike ropes made of animal products, were more

resistant to problems such as rotting and shrinkage.

Make a 5-strand rope using sisal (a fiber made from the leaves of agave plants), and a 2 strand rope using

la’i (ti). This second rope is more decorative, used mainly as lei. After constructing both types of ropes, test the

tensile strength of their ropes.

11:15 – 12:00 Imaging

ʻĀhia Dye, ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i

Manipulating our instruments allows us to capture images of the world around us, and knowing the nature of

electromagnetic waves is crucial to innovating new instrumentation. Let's explore optics in a hands-on

laboratory, and measure the effect on light through lenses and mirrors. Topics covered: light absorption,

reflection, transmission, refraction, scattering and interference.

'Āhia Dye is the Planetarium Technician as well as a Support Facilitator at 'Imiloa is from Kailua, O'ahu, and

has been excited about astronomy from "little kid times!". She is earning her B.S. in Astronomy, from the

University of Hawai'i at Hilo, and is currently a graduate student at the University of Wyoming. 'Āhia has been

working for the planetarium since 2006 and with her knowledge of the programming language has developed

most of the center's Polynesian celestial way-finding navigation database, which focuses on methods and

practice. This has also enabled her to contribute to the planetariums' educational and research

capabilities. Her career interests are related to Hawaiian astronomies and modern observational research, and

the benefits of integrating culture into science education.

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

13:00 – 14:00 Identifying the Bulk Composition of Meteorites

Heather Kaluna

Remote sensing and spectroscopy are some of the only tools that allow us to determine the composition of

asteroids. Fortunately, meteorites, which are pieces of disrupted asteroids that find their way to Earth, provide

us with a way to look at asteroid compositions and mineralogy in detail. Interestingly, the minerals we see in

meteorites are very similar to the minerals on Earth, therefore our knowledge of terrestrial minerals can be

used to understand the mineral formation and composition of asteroids.

14:00 – 15:00 PANOPTES Project

Wilfred Tyler Gee, University of Hawaii Hilo Astronomy

Learn the fundamentals of exoplanets, including current and future detection techniques. An overview of the

various techniques will be given, with a specific focus on transiting exoplanets as detected by the citizen-science

Project PANOPTES. A brief overview of the PANOPTES unit will also be given. Explore how a light-curve is

generated, a fundamental tool used in the detection of transiting exoplanets.

15:00 – 15:15 Refreshment break

15:15 – 16:15 PAES Leadership Workshop I (Janesse Brewer)

Values, Zombies & Leadership Over three days we will explore the importance of understanding how values are influential in the ways that

astronomers, engineers, and all of us approach our lives and our work and the importance of this in an

international science endeavors. Additionally, if it isn't already clear what a Zombie Apocalypse can teach us

about collaboration, leadership, and problem-solving-- then this session will surely illuminate things.

Janesse Brewer first imagined a science-related career when she was selected for a National Science

Foundation summer program in oceanography. Her parents were greatly relieved since prior to that she

wanted to be a ninja. Janesse went to college and studied environmental science. She’s been and mediator,

facilitator, and expert of stakeholder engagement for complex environmental issues since that time. She worked

on a number of mediations where science, data, cultural norms, and values intersect. Her work has led her to

work in Alaska with Native Alaskan tribes, Papua New Guinea, and in her own backyard of Colorado. Janesse

is a mediocre snowboarder and mountain biker who loves Thai food and sushi.

4:15 – 5:30 16:15-17:15 Science Project and Cultural Presentation Preparation

17:30 – 18:15 Dinner (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

18:15-19:15 Science Project Presentations, Cultural Presentations (Science and Technology Building)

Science Project Presentations: Kealakehe High School, St. Joseph School, Kamehameha

School (Keaau), Ritsumeikan Junior and Senior High School

Cultural Presentations: Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School, Shawnigan

Lake School

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i

06:45-07:45 Breakfast (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

08:30 Transport to ʻImiloa

09:00 Welcome/Briefing (Art Kimura)

09:10 – 09:15 Cultural presentation: St. Joseph School

09:15 –10:15 Awesome Light III & Tour of Tonight’s Sky (Planetarium)

10:15 -- 10:35 Hokulea—The Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage

Kalepa Baybayan, Master Navigator, Polynesian Voyaging Society

10:40 – 11:30 Explore Origins and Explorations: ʻImiloa exhibit hall

11:30 Transport to Hale Kehau Dining Hall

11:45 – 12:30 Lunch (Hale Kehau Dining Hall/prepare clothing for field trip)

12:45 Transport to ʻImiloa

13:00 – 14:15 “Build Your Own Telescope”

Mary Beth Laychek, Canada France Hawaii

Learn telescope basics and use your their newfound knowledge to build your own handheld telescope.

Mary Beth Laychak is the Outreach Program Manager at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Mary Beth

has an undergraduate degree in astronomy and astrophysics and a masters degree in educational technology.

Her passions include astronomy, sharing astronomy with students and astronomy based crafts.

14:30 – 16:00 PAES Leadership workshop II (Janesse Brewer)

Galileo: Zain Karmali, Shreyasi Ghosh Ray, Mayu Aizawa, Sarah Mumbert, Kaimi Kahihikolo, Yuto Miwa, Jonathan

Uhlmann, Shawn Yang, Archita Poddar, Nanako Horii, Julie Wang, Lillian Waikiki

Copernicus: Isabella Zhang, Olin Webb, Aparna Chandgothia, Go Ajiki, Chris Tabor, Charles Correia, Konomi Toda,

Cole DeSilva, Emily Bishop, Misaki Yamamoto, Kehan Yang

16:15 Depart to Mauna Kea State Recreation Area

17:30 Arrival Mauna Kea State Recreation Area

17:30-19:00 Dinner

6:00 – 8:30 19:00-20:30 Star Gazing (UHH Astrophysics Club)

Krystal Schlecter, Wilfred Tyler Gee

Romit Patel, Adam Chong

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20:30

20:30 2030 Transport to UHH Hale Kehau Dormitory

Thursday, July 23, 2015 ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i

06:45-07:45 Breakfast (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

08:30 Transport to ʻImiloa

09:00 Welcome/Briefing (Art Kimura)

09:15 – 10:15 Are we alone in the Universe? (Planetarium)

Geoffery Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, University of

California, Berkley

A new hunt for life in the universe is just starting, using the world's best telescopes. Astronomers have

discovered the first Earth-size planets ever found around other stars, opening opportunities to study their

environments and their suitability for life. Science fiction describes our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with

habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade, conflict, and advanced

technologies. But so far, we haven't found any life elsewhere. What properties of another planet are necessary

for intelligent life on them? What is the evidence for, or against, intelligent life? How can we search for other

intelligent life?

Geoff Marcy discovers planets around other stars. His team discovered the first multiple-planet system around

a Sun-like star, and he focusses on Earth-size planets around other stars. He is now searching for intelligent

life in the universe. Professor Marcy is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

3D Exoplanet Fly out

10:30 – 11: 45 “Red Rover Robotics” (Moanahoku)

Art and Rene Kimura

The exploration of Mars has taken place over hundreds of years, beginning in earnest with the invention and

development of the telescope during the 1600s. Increasingly detailed views of the planet from Earth inspired

speculation about its environment and possible life – even intelligent civilizations – that might be found there.

Probes sent from Earth beginning in the late 20th and early 21st century have yielded a dramatic increase in

knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential.

Using programmable robots, your team will move rock samples into a collection zone for the samples to be

returned on the planned Mars sample return mission. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-sample-return-msr/

Art and Rene Kimura are Education Specialists with the NASA Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, University of

Hawaii at Manoa. They have been engaged in education for 40 years, and with space education and NASA

since 1984: summer space camps, family science nights, community astronaut recognition days, teacher

workshops, facilitating project based learning, scholastic robotics, and global science education are among

their activities which have reached over 200,000 students, teachers and parents. Art represented Hawaii in the

NASA Teacher in Space Project and has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching,

the Civil Air Patrol Crown Circle Award, and Christa McAuliffe Aerospace Educator Award. Rene was named

the Women in Aerospace National Aerospace Teacher Award, after being nominated by Educator Astronaut

Barbara Morgan. Art and Rene were named as Hawaii’s Living Treasures in 2014.

Pathfinder: Zain Karmali, Misaki Yamamoto, Shawn Yang, Sarah Mumbert

Spirit: Isabella Zhang, Yuto Miwa, Kehan Yang, Emily Bishop

Opportunity: Olin Webb, Konomi Toda, Aparna Chandgothia, Charles Correia

Curiosity: Nanako Horii, Cole DeSilva, Shreyasi Ghosh Ray, Kaimi Kahihikolo

Odyssey: Chris Tabor, Jonathan Uhlmann, Go Ajiki, Archita Poddar

Beagle: Lillian Waikiki, Julie Wang, Mayu Aizawa

Viking: Justin Wilke, Michelle Correira, Gary Meiklejohn, Xiaobin Xu

Maven: Mousumi Patra, Naoki Matsubara, James Bishop, Matthew Eftin

11:45 Transport to Hale Kehau Dining Hall

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

12:45 Transport to Imiloa

13:00 – 14:15 Leadership Workshop III (Janesse Brewer)

14:15 –16:30 Engineering Design Brief, PAES Paper Roller Coaster Project

Art and Rene Kimura, Hawaii Space Grant Consortium

Your company is commissioned by PAES to apply your knowledge of basic inertial,

gravitational and centripetal forces, potential and kinetic energy, and friction, and

design and build the most exciting and longest lasting roller coaster ride. Using card

stock templates to build colorful columns, tracks, loops, corkscrews and support trusses,

your “marble” roller coaster will be designed to trigger the release of a second roller

coaster. Additional points will be provided for the roller coaster leaving and returning to

the track and for doing a 360 degree loop.

A: Tsinghua International School, The Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University, St.

Joseph School

B: Modern High School for Girls, Shawnigan Lake School

C: Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School, Kealakehe High School

D: Ritsumeikan Junior and Senior High School, Kamehameha School

16:30 – 17:30 Prepare Science Project and Cultural Presentations

17:45-17:50 Welcoming Oli (Kamehameha School)

17:50-18:00 Cultural Presentations: Modern High School for Girls

18:00 –19:00 Dinner/Mahalo

19:00 – 20:15 Science Presentations, Cultural Presentations

Science Project Presentations: Kamehameha School (Kapalama), Shawnigan Lake School, Modern High

School for Girls, Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School, Tsinghua International School/The

Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University

Cultural Presentations: Tsinghua International School/The Experimental High School attached to Beijing

Normal University, Ritsumeikan Junior and Senior High School

20:15 – 20:30 Closing Remarks

20:30 Depart for UHH Hale Kehau Dormitory

Friday, July 24, 2015 ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i

06:45-07:45 Breakfast (Hale Kehau Dining Hall)

08:00 Check-out of UHH Hale Kehau Dormitory (for those departing today/luggage on vans)

08:30 Transport to ʻImiloa departure

09:00 Opening (Art Kimura)

09:15 – 10:45 Engineering Design Brief: Paper Roller Coaster Olympics finals (Art and Rene Kimura)

Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to be presented.

10:45 – 11:15 Presentation of PAES certificates, group photo

11:30-12:00 Cultural presentation: Kamehameha School

12:00 - 13:15 A Hui Hou Lunch

13:30 Close of 2015 PAES

Science Project Abstracts

Kamehameha School, Hawaii

Nana i ke kumu- Searching Mo'olelo for Correlative Data showing relationship between Moon Phases and

Probability of Destructive Tsunami Activity.

A familiar `ōlelo no`eau admonishes one to “nana I ke kumu”, return to the ancestral stories that have been

passed on from to modern generations for advise on how to live and survive in Oceania. Is it possible that

kupuna (the Hawaiian word for not only grandparents, but to those who lived in the past) left clues that would

allow modern oceanic peoples to make predictions as to the likelihood of Tsunami activity? Did the ancient

people of Oceania have an “early Tsunami Warning System”? Story-telling (mo’ōlelo) in pre-literate Hawai`i

served more than as a way to entertain. It was a useful method for transmitting vital scientific information

through the generations. In the absence of a written form of communication, mo’ōlelo served to transmit

observations and scientific conclusion that were crucial to the survival of the people who called Hawai`i home.

No doubt tsunamis are destructive. For a civilization that relied on the ocean for survival, with whole

community build literally at the oceans edge, the ability to predict the likelihood of a tsunami was a skill that

could mean life or death for hundreds. The anticipated outcome of this research project was to find clues left by

kupuna in mo’ōlelo that correlated tsunami activity with particular moon phases. Once those clues are gleaned

from the moʻolelo, literature was scoured, looking for Tsunami activity in Oceania mainly, but broadened to

elsewhere. The moon phase for that date was determine using various online tools, namely the site maintained

by the US Navy. The objective was to corroborate the wisdom of kupuna.

Kamehameha School, Kapalama, Honolulu, Hawaii (Kaimi Kahihikolo)

Thieving Stars Caught by Kepler: A Search for Eccentric Accretions in Kepler Binary Systems

A study is being presented on observations of Kepler eclipsing binaries to study eccentric accretions -also called

mass transfers. This study was done on binary systems KIC: 04848423, 010480952, 04157488, 4908495,

6620003, and 7605600. Using archived data provided by Villanova University’s Kepler eclipsing binary

catalogue, systems were selected that had shown promise of containing eccentric accretions. Data was further

analyzed in Python and Excel. In the end, these eccentric accretions were detected in 3 out of the 6 systems -

KIC 4908495, 6620003, and 7605600. Further analysis of the systems yielded mass accretions rates on the

magnitude of roughly 10^12 kg/s.

Kealakehe High School, Hawaii

MoonRIDERS Project

We will be presenting our MoonRIDERS project which involves our ongoing work with Kennedy Space Center

to place their Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) on a Google Lunar XPrize (GLXP) lander and perform a dust

mitigation experiment on the surface of the moon in 2017. Our core team of students have spent thousands of

man-hours designing, fabricating, testing, reporting and presenting on this project over the last 11 months.

Modern High School for Girls, India

The Nature and Motion of the Andromeda Galaxy´s Stellar Disk

A study of the Andromeda galaxy is being conducted to acquire a global yet detailed view of a galaxy similar to

our own. The Andromeda galaxy`s stellar disk has a more violent history than the Milky Way’s. It is interesting

to check whether the motion of stars in the two galaxies’ stellar disks fits the prediction of the “Lambda Cold

Dark Matter” paradigm of structure formation in the Universe. The aim of this project is also to study the

velocity dispersion of stars in their orbits in the Andromeda galaxy. It was observed that the motion of young

stars around the centre of the galaxy is coherent as compared to the incoherent motion of the older stars. The

observations were made during SPLASH (Spectrographic and Photometric Landscape of Andromeda’s Stellar

Halo) and PHAT(Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury) surveys using the Keck telescope/ DEIMOS

multi-object spectrograph and the Hubble Space Telescope, respectively.

Ritsumeikan High School, Japan

The Effect of Parachutes on Impact Reduction

When space probes land on the surface of a planet, extremely high pressure is exerted on the probe’s body.

Needless to say, the probes should be able to withstand such considerable pressure, but there is still room for

improvement in this field. Therefore, we aim to improve impact reduction which is an important area for

aerospace technology. We assumed that the more the velocity of the fall is decreased, the more the impact will

be reduced. We conducted an experiment to observe which type of parachute has the best effect on the

deceleration. We used a parachute mechanism to decrease the velocity. Currently parachutes are used as a

deceleration system for some space probes. Hence we selected the parachute mechanism as the deceleration

system in our experiment.

Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School, Japan

Use of public data of lunar satellite “Kaguya (SELENE)”

We had a question. What if mankind could live on the moon, and could build a base to stay for a long time.

During our research, we found that JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) was officially announcing

data acquired by the lunar orbit satellite ”Kaguya(SELENE)” which was launched by Project SELENE.

We started our research with the help of JAXA researcher Junichi HARUYAMA and his software that he made

by himself. He taught us that “Lava tubes” and “Rilles” are thought as candidate sites enabling us to stay on the

moon for a long period and we searched for a concrete place to live in. After that, we thought that we wanted to

use this software which is publicly distributed.So we began to use “LISM data display tool” made by “Mitubishi

Space Software (MSS)”. We would like to present our findings based on the data we researched.

Saint Joseph High School, Hawaii

Hawaiian Star Compass

How early Polynesians used the Hawaiian Star Compass to navigate.

Shawnigan Lake School, Canada

Launching a "Satellite" into the atmosphere

Shawnigan Lake School plans to launch a small helium apparatus into near space (within the atmosphere). The

objective of this experiment is to obtain a basic understanding of the obstacles and procedure of launching a

spacecraft into our atmosphere, although we will be replicating the process on a much smaller scale. This

experiment will require a large helium balloon in order lift the device into the atmosphere, as well as a

contraption located on the object that is being launched into the atmosphere to support a camera and tracking

device. Our school on Vancouver Island is not a suitable location for launch, due to the fact that the ocean is

within close proximity. In order to find an optimal launch location, one that is flat and far away from any bodies

of water, we will likely have to travel to the mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

Tsinghua International School, and The Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal

University, China

We aim to implement a wall scaling module into rovers that can be sent to scout and explore foreign planets,

with a primary focus on Europa. Generally speaking, giving rovers the ability to climb mountainous regions will

greatly add to the flexibility of the system itself - and open up new routes that would have otherwise been

physically impossible. It could mean faster, easier access to points of interest on the planet, especially when

rocks at the top of mountains can tell a great deal about a planet's geological history. Other advantages could

include better exposure to the sun's rays for solar energy, or use sensors from a high vantage point to swiftly

map the geography of an area, or even climb down crevices for further investigation. We have a strong interest

in Europa due to the presence of water on the planet, and because it could possibly sustain life. Obviously,

immediate drawbacks do spring to mind, but Europa is still a promising candidate that ought to be explored -

and the rovers doing it should be prepared for a number of geographical obstacles.

Cultural Presentations

Kamehameha School, Hawaii

Games are not only for Children – Use of Hei Hei String Figures to Convey Scientific Information through the

Generations

Story-telling, as it is called by westerners, was utilized as a way to transmit information to future generations.

Everything ranging from planting techniques, to family planning was taught through mo’ōlelo,

the Hawaiian word that is often translated “legend or tale”. Mo’ōlelo were not “tall-

tales” told to children for the dual-purpose of entertainment and education on issues of morality.

Rather, many mo’ōlelo conveyed information of a more vital function-survival. The accurate transmission of

mo’ōlelo was critical to its success. In a society that lacked a written form of communication, a photographic

memory coupled with mnemonic techniques for memorization were often employed to insure that the

information was transmitted accurately. One such mnemonic device, involved the use of string to “create”

figures that connected the verbal mo’ōlelo to a visual representation. Cognitive studies show that we are able to

recall on 20% of what we hear, but as much as 65% of what we see and hear. Did kupuna have this figured out

hundreds of years ago, therefore employing games, such as Hei, as an education tool.

Modern High School for Girls, India

Indian Vibes

In our programme, we will present a short film portraying the cultural diversity of India. This will be followed

by a medley of different Indian folk dances. Through lively music and vibrant dance, we hope to bring the

members of the audience together to celebrate India’s rich heritage.

Ritsumeikan High School, Japan

Sōran Bushi (ソーラン節?) is one of the most famous traditional songs (min'yō) in Japan. It is a Japanese sea

shanty that is said to have been first sung by the fishermen of Hokkaidō, northern Japan. Sōran Bushi

accompanies the bon dance in many parts of Japan, and it has its own dancing styles that date back generations.

The dance moves depict ocean waves, fishermen dragging nets, pulling ropes and lifting luggage over their

shoulders. This dance is taught in many schools across Japan as part of the curriculum. During regular intervals

of the dance, the words: "DOKKOISHO!" "DOKKOISHO!" "SORAN!" "SORAN!" are called. Those words

were used in the past to encourage the fisherman during their work.

Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School, Japan

Let’s enjoy making “Senbazuru”!!

Do you know “senbazuru”? It’s a thousand cranes made in origami. Origami is a traditional form of Japanese

paper art. Almost all Japanese young people and older people enjoy it even now. Origami is a traditional

pastime that we still do and is so famous. So let’s enjoy making “senzazuru”!!

Saint Joseph High School, Hawaii

Hawaiian Language and Astrological Terms

Hawaiian words (with correct pronunciation) for astronomical terms such as Sun, Southern Cross, Mars, etc.

Shawnigan Lake School, Canada

Canada is a diverse and multicultural country. With a dynamic history involving the French and the British,

Canada has a lot to showcase. This year the Shawnigan Lake students would like to create an informative and

interactive culture presentation to all. In doing this, we will be filming and editing a video about Canada and life

at Shawnigan Lake School, "Canada's boarding school". This video will capture coast to coast history, fun facts

and diversity throughout all of Canada. Secondly within the video there will be a segment on life at Shawnigan.

This will encompass the challenges and success going to a boarding school has each day. Our interactive

activity, will most likely be a combination of a trivia quiz and addressing all humorous stereotypes about

Canadians. All in all, we the students are extremely excited to share our part of the world with you.

Tsinghua International School, China

Tsinghua International School and The Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal

University, China

Modern astronomy tends to be associated with terms like "relativity", "Lightyears", and "Supernova" - but the

ancient Chinese thousands of years ago saw stories and weaved fantasies. When they looked up at the night sky,

out popped folk tales and myths, using the heavens as a canvas for storytelling. The Milky Way would become

a silvery river, and stars would become the characters, all an inspiration for the mind rather than a field for

scientific observation. For the ancient Chinese, these stories born from stargazing burrowed deep into its

cultural roots, giving rise to entire festivals devoted to celebrate the myths depicted, one of which we plan to

share.

2015 Pacific Astronomy and Engineering Summit participants

Canada

Shawnigan Lake School

Justin Wilke (T), Zain Karmali, Isabella Zhang, Olin Web

China

Tsinghua International School and The Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University

Xiaobin Xu (T), Julie Wang, Shawn Yang, Kehan Yang

Hawaii

Kamehameha School

Michelle Correia (T), Lillian Waikiki, Charles Correia, Kaimi Kahihikolo

Kealakehe High School

James Bishop (T), Chris Tabor, Sarah Mumbert, Emily Bishop

St. Joseph High School

Matthew Eftink (T), Cole DeSilva, Jonathan Uhlmann

India

Modern High School for Girls

Mousumi Patra (T), Aparna Chandgothia, Shreyasi Ghosh Ray, Archita Poddar

Japan

Ritsumeikan Junior and Senior High School

Garry Meiklejohn (T), Misaki Yamamoto, Yuto Miwa, Konomi Toda

Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senor High School

Naoki Matsubara (T), Nanako Horii, Go Ajiki, Mayu Aizawa