Hawaii Space Grant Consortium

Come on down to for the annual Onizuka Day of Exploration! Elementary and middle school VEX IQ teams are here today competing with their robots! And some may take home a coveted Cupola trophy with Cubesat

Congratulations to the Hawaii V5RC teams who competed at this weekend’s Hawaii High and Middle School Regional Championships!

Advancing to the World Championships in St. Louis, MO include teams from Island Robotics, Waianae HS, Pearl City HS, Kaimuki Middle, Mililani Mechs Robotics, and Waialua High & Intermediate.

Thank you to our partners , , for your dedication and support to the VEX Hawaii community.

We can’t wait to see what’s next. 🤖✨

And that’s a wrap on this year’s Lacy Veach Day of Discovery! 🚀
From rockets to robotics, from imagination to innovation — our community came together once again to celebrate the power of learning and discovery.
Huge mahalo to our amazing volunteers, presenters, and students for keeping Lacy’s spirit of adventure alive. 🌺
See you next year — same energy, new discoveries!

Come catch us tomorrow, Sunday 8/10 in the STEM ZONE at the !
✅Collect a sample with a robot 🤖
✅Fold a paper space shuttle 💫
✅Launch straw rockets at planets 🚀

Are you up for our Astro Robots: Planetary Expedition challenge?! Try collect a Martian sample using our VEX IQ robots

UH IFA Open House until 4pm today!

Were you the team that won the Moon award, the one that shook the tides?? Or did you win the Jupiter Award, given to the team that exemplified Main Character energy?

Congratulations to the teams that participated in this year’s 2025 Onizuka Day of Exploration event! The excitement was high and the competition was fierce!

See you all in the next VEX season!

T-2 days until the Onizuka Day of Exploration event! Our student staff helped to design, create, and assemble our space-themed trophies for the VEX IQ Invitational Scrimmage.
Come and check out the amazing and innovative robots competing in this year’s Rapid Relay game and see who will take home one of our trophies!

Saturday, April 5 at UH West Oahu, 8:30am-3:00pm
FREE to the public!

Brought the Hawaii sun☀️😎 and Aloha spirit🌺 to Washington D.C. last week for the National Council of Space Grant Director’s Spring Meeting

Congratulations to all 111 teams that competed in the 2025 Hawaii V5RC and VIQRC Regional Championships! We send our best wishes to the 15 teams who will represent Hawaii at the 2025 VEX World Championships in Dallas, Texas in early May. Thank you to ALL of our event partners, volunteers, coaches, mentors, and students for your hard work and dedication!
That’s it for our regular season, until next school year…

Congratulations to the coaches and mentors for their hard work and dedication to this year’s VEX robotics season!
And a special shoutout to the winners of the Mentor of the Year award from the Hawaii Regional Championships!

- V5RC High School: Christian Wong, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum
- V5RC Middle School: Jon Kitagawa, Waiakea Intermediate School
- VIQRC Elementary School: Kumu Pili, Ka Umeke Kaeo PCS
- VIQRC Middle School: Tania Alfris, Innovations PCS

We’re here at UH Research Day with UH College of Education sharing our work to help teachers integrate computer science and robotics in the classroom!