Design Phase
Classroom Presentations and Mentorship
OKH is excited to offer our Hawai‘i educators—and educators around the world—the opportunity to hear directly from our mentors. Learn how they achieved their goals in the fields of astronomy and space, and find out what excites them most!
Shadow an Astronomer
OKH is working on arranging future Zoom calls where students and members of the public may watch astronomers run live experiments using Hawaii observatories. If you are interested in participating, please sign up for our Shadow an Astronomer email list below.
Invitation to Future Mentors
OKH is on the search for professionals in the fields of astronomy and space, especially from our Native Hawaiian communities, who would like to present to students in Hawai‘i and beyond (as the opportunities present themselves) about astronomy and space sciences and careers. We hope to plant the seed of interest in the stars within our youngest youths, and inspire our oldest to pursue degrees and careers in the astronomy and space fields.
If you are interested please email us a OhanaKiloHoku@gmail.com. OKH will be seeking additional grants to provide stipends to all our mentors!
Offer to Educators
If you are a teacher or professor interested in having our mentors provide a presentation to your students, or you just want to provide us some ideas on what kind of presentations would be great to see, please fill our our interest form below.
Project Poke
Aloha Educators,
OKH has teamed up with Hawaii Space Flight Lab (HSFL) to promote an educational platform in the form of a 1U (10cm squared) low-cost cubesat kit (hardware, software, and educational materials) to Middle and High School students in Hawaii with no formal aerospace program at their institution do aerospace research.
Through this grant, HSFL’s team will provide participating teachers a hardware kit and a basic electronics lab kit to test your spacecraft. Educators will be required to participate in an online UH course to provide you with technical knowledge and assistance incorporating the kit into your curriculum at no cost to you. Building off the scholastic robotics and science fair platforms, HSFL will host a design challenge for your students where they develop a mission concept around Earth Observation, and test out their ideas using the Artemis CubeSat kit. HSFL will then host an online symposium in April 2022 where your students can present their mission concept, designs/modifications to the kit, testing procedures, and results to engineers from around the state.
You can find out more here: https://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/project-poke/
If you are interested in signing up, please fill out the interest form below!
