| The Program at Maui Community College
Current Opportunities for Students Hawaii Space Grant Consortium Homepage (for in-depth information about Space Grant)
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 Maui from Space |
John Pye Associate Director Maui Community College Math/Science Division 310 Kaahumanu Avenue Kahului, HI 96732
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Note: Current information and links are posted whenever time permits. Contact John Pye directly for the most recent information on program and student opportunities.
The Maui Community College Program:
The Maui Community College Space Grant Program is part of the University of Hawaii Space Grant College Consortium, funded by a grant from NASA. The program promotes studies in areas concerned with the understanding, utilization, or exploration of space, and with the investigation of the Earth from space. Related fields of study include astronomy, engineering, adaptive optics, computer sciences, geology, meteorology, oceanography, physics, social sciences, and the life sciences. The program offers opportunities to conduct research or participate in internship projects by providing fellowships (monetary awards) to support students working on approved projects.
Previous Space Grant projects have included astronomical observations utilizing telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation, remote sensing studies of the Earth, satellite design, robotics, computer programming related to astronomical observations and data analysis, and helping construct a small observatory (including the dome and automated telescope) for research projects relating to asteroids, satellites, and space debris.
We have recently formed a partnership with the Center for Adaptive Optics at UC Santa Cruz and have offered paid summer internships on a variety of projects involving adaptive optics, astronomical observations and research, engineering, computer science, electronics, and bio-informatics.
We will soon have opportunities available to do research using the Faulkes Telescope, one of the largest optical telescopes in the world dedicated to undergraduate research and education, located on Haleakala.
Each college in the UH system participating in the Space Grant Consortium (UH Manoa, UH Hilo, Maui Community College, Leeward Community College, Windward Community College, and Kapiolani Community College) offers opportunities to students that utilize the strengths of each campus. Maui Community College has had many unique and interesting opportunities for students in its program due to our partnerships with various educational institutions and government contractors on Maui.
Current Opportunities for Students:
On Friday January 26, 2007 there will be an Akamai Expo held at Maui Community College with internship hosts and mentors and members of the Center for Adaptive Optics available to discuss the Summer 2007 internship program and opportunities. There will also be help for interested students with the application process. Click here for more information.
Current Academic Year Fellowship Recipients:
| Name | Project(s) |
| Nicholas Tyra | Adaptive Optics Demonstrator |
| Suzanne Burns | Developing a C++ Program for Determining Optimal Performance of Ground-Based Telescopes at the Haleakala Observatories Site (The Ro Calculator) |
| Conrad Corpuz | Building a Database for Uncorrelated Targets Using the Haleakala GEODSS Telescope Facility |
The following are sites related to asteroids, comets and space debris. The AMOS homepage is where you'll learn more about the observing program that the MCC Space Grant Program students have been involved in. For other interesting astronomy sites, click here.
Contact Information:
If you are interested in knowing more, or would like to get involved in the MCC Space Grant Program, please contact John Pye at:
JPye@hawaii.edu or leave a message at: (808) 984-3206