Leila Olivar

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...

Derek Hand

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...

Andrew McNichols

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...

Kully Kekaula-Basque

Kully Kekaula-Basque was born and raised in Kona. Having graduated from Kealakehe High School, he now attends Columbia Univ. in New York City, where he will be a sophomore this fall.  Kully intends to major in Computer Science with a prospective track in artificial...