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MEDIA RELEASE During the seventh annual Hawaii Botball Regional Robotics Tournament over the weekend at the Hawaii Convention Center, 37 teams of middle and high school student competitors showcased their STEM skills in an exciting tournament including 105 seeding matches, a highly competitive double elimination bracket and 18 alliance rounds. Hanalani School finished as the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Culminating an exciting three days of competition at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., Hawaii’s VEX Robotics students Saturday earned the respect and recognition of 570 global robotics teams from 14 nations. After nearly 2,000 qualifying matches in four competition divisions, Hawaii was favored […]

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MEDIA RELEASE WHO/WHAT: More than 1,000 Hawaii, mainland and international high school students will put their knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to the test at the 2011 FIRST in Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition sponsored by BAE Systems. The students represent 33 public, private and charter schools from the Big Island, Maui, Kauai […]

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MEDIA RELEASE WHO: Eight Hawaii student robotics teams will be among the more than 10,000 young people who will compete with 500 robots on six fields at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Championship. Seven FIRST Robotics teams advanced to the Championship by winning a regional competition or earning a […]

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MEDIA RELEASE 2010 BAE Systems FIRST in Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition WHO: Nearly 1,000 students from 24 Hawaii high school robotics teams and four mainland teams from Alaska, Louisiana and New Jersey. Big Island students from Honokaa, Ka’u, Kohala and Waiakea high schools will be competing. WHAT: 2010 BAE Systems FIRST in Hawaii Regional Robotics […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Linda Lingle announced in her State of the State Address that she has authorized the use of $2,805,200 in federal stimulus funds to enhance robotics education programs in Hawaii’s schools. The funds will be provided to the University of Hawaii College of Engineering, which will disburse the money to the Friends of […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Nearly 1,000 middle school and high school students from Hawaii, the mainland and China arrive Wednesday at the Hawaii Convention Center for the 2nd annual VEX Robotics Pan-Pacific Championship. The event is free and open to the public. The team-based robotics competition will put students’ engineering and high-tech skills to the test in […]

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