UH Community College students building rockets for launch

University of Hawaiʻi
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Kelli Abe Trifonovitch, (808) 228-8108
Chief Communications Officer, UH Office of Communications
Posted: Sep 1, 2022

Caleb Yuen, Nikki Arakawa, Jared Estrada, Alyson Wirtz
Caleb Yuen, Nikki Arakawa, Jared Estrada, Alyson Wirtz
Honolulu CC student Caleb Yuen with mentor Shidong Kan
Honolulu CC student Caleb Yuen with mentor Shidong Kan
Honolulu CC student Caleb Yuen with mentor Shidong Kan
Honolulu CC student Caleb Yuen with mentor Shidong Kan

Link to video and sound (details below):https://bit.ly/3Azfhzf

WHAT: A team of students and faculty from the University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges is building an 10.5-foot custom rocket to launch in the annual ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for Student Satellites) competition.  

WHO:  Project Imua is a faculty-student enterprise of multiple UH Community College campuses in affiliation with the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium.

  • For Mission 11, Windward CC will launch the team’s rocket at the ARLISS 2022 Come-Back competition. The rocket will contain a land rover designed and assembled by Windward CC that will land by parachute and autonomously make its way back to a predesignated target.

  • An atmospheric detector designed and assembled by Honolulu CC will collect data during the rocket flight.

WHEN:  ARLISS competition in Black Rock, Nevada scheduled for September 12–15, 2022.

OTHER FACTS:

  • Six members of the Project Imua Mission 11 team are also building their own rockets to launch in the XPRS (eXtreme Performance Rocket Ships) event September 16–18 to earn various National Association of Rocketry (NAR) certifications.

  • Project Imua Mission 11 is fully funded by the Hawai‘i Space Grant Consortium.

  • Project Imua Mission 10 students designed and built a scientific payload that flew on a NASA rocket that was launched into space on August 11, 2022. 

VIDEO: TRT 2:00 

BROLL: 1:20

:00-:06 Still of project Imua Mission 11 team with rocket

:07- :50 Video of student Caleb Yuen and mentor Shidong Kan at Honolulu CC

:51- 1:19 Stills and video of team at Windward CC working with rover and rockets

 SOUND:

Caleb Yuen, Project Imua Honolulu CC student (:20)

“Project Imua helps them practice the good experience of being a scientist. I can best describe.  This is my second year of being in this program and I’m taking it like just having on the job experience right now.”

Yuen (:17)

“I feel it takes them to that kind of journey, maybe not directly to a rocket scientist, but into science in general and engineering and the STEM movement it stands for. I think it’s a great gateway to get involved.”