CSO staff at
Astroday, Hilo's Prince Kuhio
Mall, May, 2003. 13,000 visitors, mostly island residents, were attracted
to this one day event.
(Photos: on left
courtesy of Richard Crowe. On right, courtesy of Gary Fujihara.
Photo on right is slightly retouched.)
March, 2003: CSO presentation to Waikea Elementary
school students.
Summer 2003
Summer intern was Kimo Unten, a student at the University of Texas
at Austin, in the Civil Engineering program. Kimo designed the automated 3rd mirror
cell mover system which is currently in use. Kimo graduated from UT in 2004 and
temporarily worked as a Health Physicist for the Nuclear Engineering Teaching
Laboratory at UT until he found a position as a Civil Engineer with a firm in Honolulu.
June 22, 2003: Stars Over Mauna Kea, a tabloid newspaper insert was prepared by the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, containing articles prepared by every observatory on Mauna Kea, including one on CSO. (Extra copies available on request).
January - May, 2003: CSO staff member taught Physics
331 (Junior Level Optics) at the University of Hawaii, Hilo.
June 8, 2003: A Hilo High School science class visited CSO and received a presentation
by
Senior Electronics Engineer Melanie Leong on the history of Radio Astronomy which included a demonstration
of radio noise produced by an electrical spark.
July 4, 2003:
CSO Staff Senior Electronics Engineer Melanie Leong made a presentation at the Onizuka Visitor
Information Station (VIS) in a talk entitled
"Radio to Radio Astronomy"
