{"id":186780,"date":"2023-11-08T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186780"},"modified":"2023-11-08T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:46:34","slug":"symposium-encourages-space-stem-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/08\/symposium-encourages-space-stem-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free symposium encourages space, <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-hawaii-flight-lab.jpeg\" alt=\"Earth with satellites surrounding it \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-hawaii-flight-lab.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-hawaii-flight-lab-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/manoa-hawaii-flight-lab-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A free virtual symposium designed to inspire students to pursue space and science, technology, engineering and mathematics or <abbr title=\"Science Technology Engineering Math\">STEM<\/abbr>-related careers is launching this fall. The meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/\/www.pacificspacecenter.com__;!!PvDODwlR4mBZyAb0!R227EkrtGyefZz1dlCzXZoKFEcvKgpZ0bYXv_Nd84kdiZXr4uG-PRoqrB-Uw7L55Wty8-D4E4sdlq8DOZq4$\">Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems<\/a> (<abbr>PISCES<\/abbr>)&#8212;a program of University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/cnhs\/\">College of Natural and Health Sciences<\/a>&#8212;will highlight space exploration and technology.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal of the Space Science Symposium is to give students a realistic overview of what space careers are like. Many different disciplines are involved and we hope to inspire students  to pursue their own aspirations through the academic and professional stories of our presenters,&rdquo; said Christopher Yoakum, a communications officer at <abbr>PISCES<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>PISCES<\/abbr> will feature a nanomaterials scientist from billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 spaceflight company Blue Origin in an upcoming talk on Tuesday, November 14, at 3 <abbr>p.m.<\/abbr> Yajaira Sierra-Sastre currently leads crew mockups development for the <abbr>MK2<\/abbr> lunar lander program at Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_X3JujUPXSuuk7dD7nTJcSQ#\/registration\">Register online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In October, <abbr>PISCES<\/abbr> hosted aerospace engineer Amber Imai-Hong, a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island native who focused on remote sensing research she conducts at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsfl.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificspacecenter.com\/\">For more information go to the <abbr>PISCES<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virtual symposium launched to give students a realistic overview of careers in space exploration and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1296,174,313,14],"class_list":["post-186780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-natural-and-health-sciences","tag-space","tag-stem","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186784,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186780\/revisions\/186784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}