James Boyd – Akamai 2018

James Boyd is from southeastern Louisiana and moved to the Big Island in March, 2017. Currently, he is enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, pursuing a major in Computer Science and hopes to develop software after graduation. He has a particular interest in...

Romilly Benedict – Akamai 2018

Romilly was born in Austin, Texas and moved to Waimea, Hawaii when she was three-years-old. She graduated from Honoka’a High School in 2017 and is currently a freshman at George Mason University in Virginia. She is majoring in Chemistry with a concentration in...

Alec Bayer – Akamai 2018

Alec Bayer first became a Maui resident at a young age when his parents brought their family business to the island. Although they had to move back to the mainland a few years later, Alec returned to become a University of Hawaii Maui student after completing initial...

David Trang – 2006

David Trang is a native to a small Dutch town called Holland in Michigan. In hopes to escape the winter, he now attends the University of Hawai’i-Hilo where he is currently majoring in astronomy, geology and psychology. His strong curiosity about nature enabled him to...