2016, Astronomy, Hawaii Island, Oahu
Kaimi was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu and graduated from Kamehameha Schools Kapalama. He is a freshman undergraduate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, pursuing two BS degrees in Astrophysics and Mathematics. After attaining his BS degrees, Kaimi plans...
2016, Astronomy, Hawaii Island, Mathematics, Maui
Zachary was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii. He graduated from Kamehameha Schools Hawaii and is a senior mathematics major at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. After graduating with his B.A., Zach plans to apply to graduate school and is interested in pursuing a Ph.D....
2014, Astronomy, Hawaii Island, Hawaii Island, R&D
Leila Olivar was raised in Kea‘au on the island of Hawaii and graduated from Kea‘au High School in 2011. For her first year of college, she attended UH Hilo as a pre-engineering student, then transferred to UH Manoa where she is now majoring in Civil and...
2014, Astronomy, Chemistry & Biology, Hawaii Island, Hawaii Island
Derek Hand is a senior at UH Hilo and is majoring in Astrophysics. He originally comes from Bemidji, Minnesota, but has been living on the Big Island for the last 2 years. He has interests ranging from outdoors sports to observational astronomy and computational...
2014, Astronomy, Hawaii Island, Hawaii Island
Andrew McNichols was born and raised in Connecticut. During his first year of college, he decided to study astronomy, so he transferred to UH Hilo to be close to the observatories on Mauna Kea. Andrew graduated in May 2014 with bachelor’s degrees in Astronomy and...
