This year’s game mission is the Autonomous tennis Ball Collector (AtBC) – a bot mission for the game competition at the 11th annual Hawaii Robofest Regional Tournament (April 7, 2018, Pearl City High School).

Special MAHALO! to Mr. Gary Kanamori (former Robofest coach and current Vice Principal at Pearl City High School) for facilitating a great programming workshop for our budding gamers! 50 students attended the EV3/NXT programming workshop on Saturday, February 3rd. Lots of basic programming concepts and competition tips for those who attended.

Here’s a link to Mr. Kanamori’s PPT Google slides for reference: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JfPYSMfztF6teRgI50AmHJ6gt6qAWLawOHwjbVuntVA/edit#slide=id.g1c6f9fcf84_0_124

Welcome to the 11th annual Hawaii Robofest Kickoff! We are excited to begin another season of fun, creative and innovative activities with our Hawaii ohana!

This year, we’ve created a short video of tips and reminders — especially for coaches — addressing things we need to consider for each of the 4 Hawaii Robofest activities. Thanks to all our volunteer Activity Chairs (see list below) for the information and to Jake Tamaye (Highlands Intermediate School) for shooting and editing the video.

• Ranold Fujioka (Engineer, Navy Region Hawaii), Game Chair
• Gary Kanamori (VP, Pearl City HS), Head Referee (Game) and Programming Workshop Facilitator
• Mike Leslie (Manana ES) and Jodie Funasaki (Waikele ES), Exhibition
• Gayle Loui (Waipahu IS), assisting the Bottle SumoBot Team (Lisa Watanabe, Student Chair, Pearl City HS)
• Lisa Higa (Principal, Nanakuli ES), RoboParade Chair

If you have any questions, you can email us at info(at)hifusioned.org.

Please check out both websites: The national Robofest website for official rules, forms, forums and videos as well as our local website for information for the Hawaii Robofest Regional and registration.

Best wishes for a fun and successful Hawaii Robofest season!

Please click on link below to download the new RoboParade handout for this year’s theme information, tournament procedures and other important information.

2018HRF_RParade_Handout

The 11th annual Hawaii Robofest Regional will be held on Saturday, April 7th, 2018, at Pearl City High School (cafeteria). Competitive activities are Game, Exhibition and Bottle SumoBot. Our fun and popular RoboParade will also be presented!

Just a friendly reminder to all coaches who would like to register for this season’s Hawaii Robofest Regional – registration has been open since September 2017 and will close on February 23rd, 2018. All fees must be collected by the deadline. Registration instructions are on the attached Team Information sheet (click on link below for pdf). Mahalo for your kokua!

Team Information

 The Pearl City Neighborhood Board recognized Manana Elementary School Hawaii Robofest teams at their April meeting (4/12/2017). Congratulations to Coaches Lynn Okamura, Janet Okamura and Kellie Hatten and their 5 robotic teams for competing in the 10th annual Hawaii Robofest Regional Qualifier held on April 8th at Pearl City High School.

Kudos to all the Manana teams with special shout outs to: 1) the Manana Ke‘oke‘o Destroyers who took first and the People’s Choice Award in the Exhibition category and 2) The Manana RoboTeam who received a People’s Choice and Helping Hands Award in the RoboParade category.

Special congratz to Coach Lynn Okamura (photo above, far right) who was recognized at the Regional event for her 10 years of coaching service to students at Manana Elementary! Coach Okamura was presented with a certificate and check for $100 during Hawaii Robofest’s 10th Anniversary celebration.

Read more about them here: http://www.mypearlcity.com/story/education/manana-elementary-places-1st-2nd-robofest-2017