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MEMSI – The Wonderful World of Manufacturing

January 26, 2019 | MEMSI | ceemit

By Eric Wong ’19 Possibly the greatest highlight of the MEMSI experience was exploring the Greater Bay Area, also known as the Pearl River Delta, the Silicon Valley of the East. Two days, a high speed […]

MEMSI – The Process

January 26, 2019 | MEMSI | ceemit

By Eric Wong ’19 Today we decided to kick start our goal of tackling supermarket packaging waste by going on a field trip to a nearby supermarket to see firsthand what we’re trying to solve. At […]

TREX 2019: The Mission to Ascend Mauna Kea

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]

TREX – Day 5: Mauna Kea!

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 REX Day 5: Mauna Kea! Today, we drove up Mauna Kea, the second-highest mountain on the island. At the top, there was none of the heat nor humidity we have come to […]

TREX 2019 – When in Rome, eat spam

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Viban Gonzales ’20 We’ve been in Hawaii for a few days now and have settled into an evening routine. At the start of the trip, we all signed up for nights to cook dinner for […]

Global Teaching Labs: Teaching and Traveling

January 20, 2019 | Global Teaching Labs | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ’19 My classes so far have been great. I can’t believe I am already two-thirds of the way done with my time at the school! I am teaching students from Year 2 (about […]

TREX Day 8: Leilani and the Super Blood Moon

January 20, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Leilani Estates was right by the Fissure 8, the most destructive fissure during this past summer’s lava flows. The surrounding area has been transformed into volcanic glass; it is dangerous, unstable, and […]

Day 6: Installing Meteorological Sensors in Ocean View

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 As with most days, the group split into two teams, one focused on meteorology and the other on forestry. Given yesterday’s forestry group’s enthusiasm for 7 feet tall ferns and wading through […]

TREX Day 7: Transects and Beaches (Again…)

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 We started off today with data analysis, compiling and graphing the data that we have generated with transects so far. Nothing particularly insightful has popped up yet, but we’ll be studying the […]

TREX Day 6 – Plants

January 18, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Sierra Rosenzweig ’20, Stephen Duncan ’20, and I kicked off our day with an early morning call into the CEE mini-UROP. We spoke to the freshmen about our experience in TREX and […]

TREX – Day 5: Transects and Sensors

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 Today, we split into three groups: one to do atmospheric profiles using drones, one to do forest transects in the Nanawale forest reserve, and one to put up a meteorological sensor and […]

TREX – Day 4

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was an exciting disappointment. We were originally supposed to head over to Leilani to see newly formed lava fields, but never got a call back on whether today was okay for […]

TREX Off the Clock: Coffee, Beaches, and Early Morning Runs

January 16, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 TREX is an incredible opportunity to learn about the environment, climate, and how human interactions affect each, but we would be remiss if we came to Hawaii for two weeks and never […]

TREX 2019 Day 2: Solar Panels and Sensors

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 The morning dawned bright and not so early, beginning at ten with us splitting into two groups. Half went to our first outing at a small climate and air quality research station, […]

TREX Day 3 – Plant Life

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was a pants kind of day. Our group started off adventuring into the woods behind the house to take something called a transect. Professor Dave Des Marais walked 50 feet straight […]