‘Imiloa Astronomy Center hosted the first International Micro Robot Conference and Tournament last month.

Waiakea High School and ‘Iolani School hosted students and teachers who came from Ritsumeikan High School, a super science high school in Kyoto, Japan. Over two weeks, the Hawai‘i group took its peers hiking through Kilauea Iki Crater, star-gazing from Mauna Kea, to Coconut Island for an acoustic shrimp study, on an Atlantis submarine drive off Waikiki, and to presentations by astronomers, geologists and marine scientists.

In November, Waiakea High and ‘Iolani will each send a 5-student/1-teacher delegation to the 8th annual Ritsumeikan International Super Science Fair in Kyoto.

Also planned is a micro robot outreach programs on all islands, which introduces the LETry robot and other micro-mechanisms to participating teachers.

KTA’s program Living In Paradise: Science is fun has a YouTube video featuring Dave Olive and the Japanese students and teachers. It’s the third segment on that video.

Pictures from the two weeks that the Waiakea and ‘Iolani students took the Japanese students around. Wow: