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R.I.S.K. Inno-vaders Compete at States!

The R.I.S.K. Inno-vaders represented Kamehameha Maui Elementary School well at the 2019 Hawaii First Lego League State Championship! The team competed in three interviews: Robot Judging, Project judging and Core Values judging; as well as competing in three rounds of robotic matches. Hoʻomaikaʻi!

The fifth grade Comet Coders Robotic Team members: Hiʻilei All, Braelyn Hong, Lilinoe Peterson, Vann Siphers, Jaren Merritt. Myla Tuitele, Tevyn Apo and Daniel Mauiloa proudly pose for a picture at this yearʻs FirstLego League Robotics Competition held at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center on Oahu this past Saturday, Dec. 1st, 2018. They competed in 3 qualifying events: Core Values, a research project on an innovative spacesuit, and Robot Design. They received the first place trophy for Core Values: Gracious Professionalism.  Congratulations!  We are very proud of all your efforts!

Kaiaokamalieʻs Exploratory Wednesday Class of second and third graders pose in front of their stable of Sumo wrestlers. Students designed their sumo wrestlers using a plastic cup shell and drew their arenas outside using chalk on the sidewalks. The students had an opportunity to practice and test their wrestlers in practice matches against other students. They learned the aspect of force and motion through the design and iteration on how their robot did in the circle!

Tako Tech Team members proudly pose for a picture at this yearʻs FirstLego League Robotics Competition held at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center on Oahu this past Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 2017. They competed in 3 qualifying events: Core Values, a research project on Nā Wai ʻEhā, and Robot Design. They beat their Maui Tournament score of 85 points in a single round of play.  Congratulations!  We are very proud of all your efforts!

First lego league Blog

Congratulations to our new 2017-2018 Kamehameha Maui Elementary First LEGO League Robotics Team members!

Keawe, Sig, Skylar, Errol, Luc, Karissa, Jaime, Bransyn, Gauge, Oisin

Busy Programming their EV3 robots

Girls are excellent programmers!!!!

Every year, FIRST LEGO League releases a Challenge, which is based on a real-world scientific topic. Each Challenge has three parts: The Robot Game, the Project, and the Core Values. A team of up to ten children participate in the Challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a themed playing field (RobotCHALLENGE®Game), developing a solution to a problem they have identified (Project), all guided by the FIRST LEGO League Core Values.

Practicing their Team Building skills!

This yearʻs theme is Hydro Dynamics. This year’s Project challenge is to improve the way people find, transport, use, or dispose of water. By designing Challenges around such topics, participants are exposed to potential career paths within a chosen Challenge topic, in addition to solidifying the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) principles that naturally come from participating in the program. Team members also learn valuable life and employment skills which will benefit them no matter which career path they choose. Students from all across the nation are participating in these challenges. The official challenge was released on August 30th through the First LEGO League (FLL). The competition will be held on November 11, 2017 at the Kamehameha High School Campus.

We wish our FIRST LEGO League best of luck!

Lights..Camera…ACTION!!

Wake Up Warriors is a LIVE student produced broadcast show that is streamed to each of our elementary classrooms via a You Tube channel every morning. Please click on the link below to watch:

2017-2018 LIVE Wake Up Warrior Link

The morning broadcast teams consist of elementary students in grades 4 and 5. Three new 2017-2018 Wake Up Warrior Crews have been announced. Our three teams of students are:  Busy Bees, Week Day Warriors and Mavericks. We will be broadcasting LIVE from the Elementary music room every morning from 8:00-810 am (except Wednesdays).

Busy Bees: Jaime, Vann, Skylar, Margret-Jean, Leihalia, Pohai, Savannah, Takara, Anela

Maveriks : Nainoa, Taylor-Love, Kiana, Ceri, Jayce, Sidon, Ava, Kaimana

Week Day Warriors: Reel, Cru, Evalani, Myla, Anela, Hailey, Oisin, Chaela, Pounamu

Students beginning the year team building using Kahoot App.

Enjoying your Summer?  Our haumana in Kumu Kaiaokamalie’s SustainAppbility Summer Course Session 2 class have been busy creating Apps that will help our ‘Åina. Haumana have created Apps that will help detect pesky insects (Hawaii’s Curious Creatures), learn how to care for a plant in a digital virtual reality environment, or even learn which Native Species are best for food consumption. Jason Patao and his partner Shacedy Dudoit-Higa have brainstormed an App called Ulu that will help populate more native plants on Maui. Please click on the link below to see a demo app of their Ulu App. Be sure your volume is turned up!

https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/FiUeiJ2SM-058rf6savufo_fNG-ZVoTo2mgxoG_B6uQ

Environmental  Decisions Demo App is an app created by Jaxson Pahukula and Axton Pakaki while taking Kumu Kaiaokamalie’s SustainAppbility summer course. Jaxson coded using Javascript in Khan Academy. The students designed the App to better inform people about taking better care of Maui’s environment with an emphasis on sustainability. Please click on the following link to check out their prototype!

https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/environmental-decisions-demo/4630348157485056

Our Wake Up Warriors Broadcast team members enjoyed a day of learning and fun!  They went on a huakaʻi to visit the University of Hawaii Maui Campus. Mr. Mike Albert, Class of ʻ72 took them on a tour of the Kaʻa ʻIke Building, Media Center. The students were treated to a behind the scenes tour of the facility as well as a hands-on demonstration of their state of the art media studio. Students practiced running the 3 cameras, using the various sound, light and transition boards as well as shooting from two established sets. We are very grateful to our host, Mr. Albert who took time out of his busy day to give us the tour and have some hands-on studio time. He lit a spark and we are hoping next yearʻs morning broadcast will be even better.