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2021 MATHCOUNTS C OMPETITI ON The virtual 2021 MATHCOUNTS Chapter versions of web browsers, such as Microsoft another adult (other than the proctor) always Invitational Competition was held on February Edge and operating systems such as Windows, present, 25, 2021, starting at 2:00 pm HST on the Art of Mac OS, Android, etc. The Contest Platform can (3) Competitors will be required to provide Problem Solving (AoPS) Contest Platform. All be used on desktops, laptops, tablets, etc. They their proctor’s information (name, relation, competitors throughout the country were recommend competitors participate in at least contact information) to MATHCOUNTS in required to take this competition at the same two of the online Practice Competitions to verify advance of the competition, time. The Chapter Invitational is an added their device and system are sufficient for the (4) Competitors and proctors will both be competition to determine who will compete in the Contest Platform. required to review the competition rules and 2021 State Competition on March 25, 2021, at PROCTORING proctoring guidelines on the online competition 1:00 pm HST on the same AoPS Contest ( All students all over the country take the prior to starting the test, Platform. competition virtually at the same time. These (5) Competitors will be required to sign an The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop competitors are proctored by coaches or an Honor Pledge at the beginning of the MATHCOUNTS. In-person competition became adult, and they can identify their own proctor or competition and an Honor Pledge Certification virtual. Preparations for 2021 competition began request assistance with one. Proctoring can be at the end of the competition, in 2020 with registrations beginning on June 16, done both in-person or virtually. (6) Proctors will be required to submit their 2020, followed by four Practice Competitions on MATHCOUNTS provided guidelines to the name, relation and contact information at the the AoPS Contest Platform to get competitors ( competitors, coaches and parents for proctoring beginning of the competition and sign a Proctor familiar before the Chapter, Chapter Invitational the State Competition. They include the Certification at the end of the competition, and and State Competitions. Most students compete following: (7) Competitors will have the option to request as part of a registered school, however, if a (1) If possible, proctors should be a non- assistance identifying a proctor. student’s school is not participating, the student can register as a non-school competitor (NSC) related adult who the competitor’s family knows CHAPTER COMPETITION RESULTS-HAWAII paying a slightly higher registration fee. and is comfortable with, FEBRUARY 5-6, 2021 Registration started earlier with more reminders (2) If possible, proctoring should be Table 1 shows the total competitors and the since COVID-19 created much reluctance to conducted in a safe,T in-person environment with number advancing to the Chapter Invitational. both the non-related proctor and with a parent or compete virtually instead of in-person. continued on Page 5 THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING CONTEST TABLE 1 PLATFORM Registered in AoPS but did not AoPS is hosting these competitions online as Chapter Competitors 20% cutoff Advancing compete a courtesy to community and friends at MATHCOUNTS. AoPS staff are not involved in the development of content for any of the Honolulu 125 Top 25 35 14 competitions. All official competitions are received by AoPS staff at most 10 days before 62 Top 12 16 7 the competition start date and securely handled by only essential contest administration staff. Big Island 3 Minimum 4 3 0 The AoPS Contest Platform supports recent

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ASCE’s COVID-19 RESOURCES PAGE https://collaborate.asce.org/covid-19/home Reminder that ASCE has launched a COVID- 19 resources page with online tools and tips in one convenient place. The page includes links to free programs, training, and resources, the Published monthly by: results of COVID-19 industry impact surveys, HAWAII COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING SOCIETIES and relevant online discussions with fellow 2020-2021 ASCE Hawaii Section Officers members. The page also offers several ways to SERVICE PRINTERS, INC. President: Dayna Nemoto-Shima, P.E. work more effectively while at home and 1829 Dillingham Boulevard • Honolulu, HI 96819 email: [email protected] activities to take advantage of in the down time Telephone: (808) 841-7644 • Fax: (808) 847-1487 Pres.-Elect: Clifford Lum, P.E. you may have – even fun things to do with the email: [email protected] ADDRESS ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION TO: keiki! And don’t forget that all members have 10 Vice Pres.: Reyn Hashiro, P.E. WARREN YAMAMOTO email: [email protected] free PDHs! Now may be a good time to catch 1526-C Pukele Avenue • Honolulu, HI 96816 Treasurer: Eric Tomishima, P.E. up on some of those technical on-demand Telephone: 732-5216 email: [email protected] webinars. Secretary: Sheila Uyeoka, P.E. COMMITTEE POSITIONS email: [email protected] WILIKI MAILING LIST Past Pres.: Jason Kage, P.E. ASCE Hawaii is looking for volunteers for Additions and/or corrections to the email: [email protected] various committee positions. If you are Wiliki mailing list should indicate the YMF Pres.: Carly Kaneko, P.E. interested or have questions on any of these proper society, institution or association. email: [email protected] positions, please contact President Dayna Corrections to email addresses should be Nemoto-Shima, [email protected]. submitted to your society coordinator. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MEMBERSHIP Last held: March 4, 2021 If you haven’t already done so, please renew Next meeting: April 8, 2021 your ASCE membership, which includes 10 free ASCE HAWAII SECTION DINNER PDHs. You can renew your membership at HAWAII COUNCIL MEETINGS www.asce.org. of The continued health and safety of our ENGINEERING SOCIETIES ASCE HAWAII SECTION STUDENT membership is our top priority and we will SCHOLARSHIPS P.O. Box 2873 continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. Please help us increase our scholarship HONOLULU, HAWAII 96802 Future in-person ASCE Hawaii Section events, endowment so that we can recognize deserving including our section dinner meetings, are still students. We continue to accept tax-deductible temporarily on hold. Zoom meetings will be donations with the goal of increasing the annual HOME PAGE: hceshawaii.org scheduled in lieu of in-person meetings, date scholarships. Make your check payable to EMAIL: [email protected] and time TBD. We will keep you informed via e- ‘ASCE Hawaii Section’ and include the note 2021-2022 OFFICERS blasts and/or notices posted on our website at ‘Walter Lum Scholarship Fund’ and mail to: Chair: Roger Babcock ascehawaii.org when they will be scheduled. ASCE Hawaii Section, P.O. Box 917, Honolulu, Vice-Chair: Jay Stone Secretary: Open Please continue to stay safe, watch out for each HI 96808-0917. If you have any questions, Treasurer: Kristen Yoshida other, especially our kupuna, and continue to please contact Eric Tomishima at SOC Representative Alternate be vigilant about best health practices. [email protected]. AACE J. Uno ASCE JOB LISTINGS ACECH M. Adolpho APWA R. Char The following job listings are currently posted YMF General Meeting on the ASCE Hawaii Section website: ASCE E. Arakawa The next virtual YMF general meeting will be ASHRAE D. Kishi Samantha Nakamura • AECOM (Civil Engineers II) on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 6pm via Zoom. ASME F. Garma • City and County of Honolulu (Civil Engineer Please send your RSVP to EAH S. Gillie III, IV, V, Civil Engineer V (Geotechnical), & [email protected], link will be distributed FALEA M. Stevenson Electrical Engineer V) HSPE M. Kamaka K. Kunimine to those who RSVP prior to the meeting. Please HWEA R. Babcock be sure to check out our website and social • Gray Hong Nojima & Associates, Inc. IEEE G. Torigoe media channels for the most updated (Junior Civil Engineer) ITE W. Yamamoto information and for details on virtual events. If • G70 (Civil Designer, Civil Engineer, Civil SAME L. Wong you are interested in attending and learning Project Manager, Construction Manager) SEAOH K. Hashimoto • HDR (Senior Civil Engineer, Project Manager, SFPE S. Dannaway more about the various professional, social and SWE K. Yoshida service opportunities available through YMF, Senior Engineering Project Manager, UHM CoE S.K. Choi please contact YMF at [email protected]. Water/Wastewater Engineer) • Kennedy/Jenks Consultants (Project Palisades Elementary Manager, Staff Engineer for Honolulu Office and In celebration of E-Week, ASCE YMF reached Staff Engineer for Hawaii Office) out to Mrs. Lee’s class of 2nd graders at Palisades Elementary School to do a virtual • Nagamine Okawa Engineers Inc. (Structural STEM activity. YMF prepared and delivered Engineer) “mystery bag” material packets which • R.M Towill Corporation (Assistant Engineer contained your typical household items; straws, I, Assistant Engineer II, Civil Design Engineer, index cards, tape and spaghetti noodles and Design Visualizer 3D Modeler) asked to create their own free standing • Stantec (Account Manager/Engineer-Water) Hawaii Section — Younger Member Forum structure to support as many pennies as • SSFM (Civil Engineer V, Structural Engineer Web site: http://www.ascehawaii.org/ymf.html possible. Instructions for the activity was IV) shared via YMF’s YouTube channel so that For further information, please visit 2020-2021 YMF Officers students could access it at their own http://www.ascehawaii.org/job-listings.html. Carly Kaneko, President convenience. The activity taught the students a [email protected] real-life engineering lesson of thinking outside Claire Fukuoka, Vice President the box with given restraints while also teaching Deadline for [email protected] the students that problem solving is an iterative Brandon Uejo, Treasurer process that sometimes requires trial and error. [email protected] Thank you to everyone who helped put the Lance Lam, Secretary video and packets together and thank you to Wiliki [email protected] Mrs. Lee for allowing us to share a little about Kapiolani Street, Past President engineering with her students! We hope to do is April 15th [email protected] more of these type of events in the future. 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PO BOX 3348, HONOLULU, HI 96801 2020-2021 Officers: 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Web Page URL http://www.seaoh.org President: Kelly Akasaki 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS [email protected] UHM College of Engineering OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Vice Pres.: Jasmine Teramae-Kaehuaea Deans and Chairs Dean Brennon Morioka President John Uno [email protected] Int. Assoc. Dean David T. Ma [email protected] Sec/Treas: Keoni Wasano Assistant Dean Song K. Choi Vice President Craig Meierhoffer [email protected] CEE Chair Ian Robertson [email protected] EE Chair Wayne Shiroma Secretary Clifford Lau ME Co-Chairs Lloyd Hihara and Weilin Qu [email protected] In March, ITE hosted their first-ever, virtual HAWTI Dir. Magdy Iskander Treasurer James Aoki Technical Conference on Intersections and [email protected] Streets. This online technical conference Director (Yr 2) Rod Haraga focused on new and innovative solutions to Literally Building a Better Hawai‘i [email protected] transportation challenges being implemented Director (Yr 2) Lauren Tolentino Hawai‘i consulting firm SSFM International [email protected] in communities in the United States and around has extended its commitment to multiple Director (Yr 1) Justin Matoi the world. This two-day event featured 10 scholarships for students at the University of [email protected] technical sessions developed by ITE’s Councils Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Director (Yr 1) Will Wong and Committees along with a plenary session The SSFM International, Inc. Freshman [email protected] and engaging networking activities. Past President Danny Fujioka Scholarship covers four years of tuition for a [email protected] Conference topics include Bicycle and first-year student in the UH Mānoa college of Pedestrian Treatments, Micromobility, engineering. Upcoming Events Multimodal Performance Measures, and Safe The SSFM International, Inc. Scholarship For all events see seaoh.org or email flyers. System Approach. Program and registration covers tuition for the company’s employees April Continuing Education Seminar: information can be found at who are undergraduates in the UH Mānoa Planning to invite Simpson Strong-Tie to make https://www.itetechconference.org/. In support, college of engineering. the Hawaii ITE section did not host a meeting a presentation. More details forthcoming. The SSFM International Graduate Fellowship and encouraged members to attend the SEAOH Annual Golf Tournament: in Planning provides assistance for tuition, fees, technical conference in its place. Annual golf tournament is being scheduled and other expenses to a student working for either October 22nd, or 29th. If you would like to be added to the ITE toward a master’s degree in the Department of Membership Applications mailing list, please email Keoni Wasano at Urban and Regional Planning. [email protected]. Application was received from Kate Hannas, “SSFM has a long-standing commitment to Member. Please contact any SEAOH Board our community as one of the oldest kama‘aina Member by April 5, 2021, to file comments engineering firms in Hawai‘i,” says Brennon regarding the applicant. Morioka, Dean of the College of Engineering. Next Meeting on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. For “Their commitment continues, through this information, contact SEAOH President John scholarship and their relationship with the Uno at [email protected] College of Engineering and our students.” One of SSFM’s beneficiaries is Sara Nakagaki, a senior civil engineering major Association graduating in spring 2021. She says, “This for the scholarship allowed me to pursue other engineers and Advancement of opportunities and to become a more well- architects of Cost Engineering rounded person. Instead of having the constant worry of paying for school, I could focus on hawaii HAWAII SECTION studying, and building a network with other founded 1902 future civil engineers.” Hawaii Section 2019-2020 OFFICERS Michael P. Matsumoto, President, SSFM PO. Box 1901, Honolulu, HI 96805-1901 www.aacehawaii.com International, Inc. says, "I am pleased that An association for Hawaii’s Engineers and President Christopher Kanae SSFM International Inc. is able to support my Architects Vice Pres. Will Sparks, PSP alma mater, the College of Engineering, and our WEB address: www.eahawaii.org Secretary Yashaira Fletcher next generation of engineers in this important EAH 2020 Officers Treasurer Jeanette Roberts way. Scholarships have a profound impact on President Phil Blackman 282-7948 Dir. Soc. Med. Yong Shi, CCP the lives of students, and make it possible for 1st V. P. Rob Kinslow Cont. on the Board UH to attract, retain and train the outstanding Treasurer Aaron Erickson 591-2728 Secretary Sam Gillie of Directors Maelyn Uyehara (Past Pres.) future professionals our state needs." Director Martin McMorrow 256-4713 Founded in 1959, the firm provides Director George Coates 234-5659 As a member of the Board of the Council of engineering, planning, construction Director Howard Wiig 587-3811 Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards management, development management and Director Bill Brizee 523-9636 (CESB), AACE International offers a range of production management services in Hawai‘i Director Joe Feind Director Dave Martin 543-4504 certification levels from technician to and the Pacific. It has a long history of support professional to expertise level including CCT, for the UH community. EAH is currently only having Zoom Meetings CCP, CEP, EVP and PSP Certification Morioka says, “SSFM’s support for our until further notice. Programs. students and their investment in mentoring Regular meetings are held 2 times per month The local section, AACE Hawaii, was Hawai‘i’s future leaders cannot be overstated. on Fridays. Meetings start at NOON and have originally established in 1973. It achieved both We are truly appreciative of Mike Matsumoto ended PROMPTLY at 1:00 pm for over 110 the Platinum and Gold Award for seven and his SSFM ‘ohana for their partnership, and years. consecutive years 2014-2020. Our local area we are excited about what the future holds for Members, guests, and the Public are continues to achieve CCP, CEP, CST and PSP our students who will benefit from such welcome to join EAH meetings. Email certifications. For more information, please visit generosity.” [email protected] to get the Zoom meeting http://web.aacei.org/certification and our local links. website www.aacehawaii.com . Wiliki_Apr2021_Wiliki Sept06 3/23/21 7:06 AM Page 6

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www.asme-hi.com ASME-HI 2020-2021 Officers Chairperson Froilan Garma 321-2691 [email protected] American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Vice-Chair Derick Kam Engineers, Inc. Hawaii Chapter [email protected] P.O. Box 3916, Honolulu, HI 96812-3916 Secretary Jason Frifeldt 358-6322 [email protected] Treasurer Kevin Dang 737-1708 Hawaii Section Officers 2020-2021 [email protected] President Samantha Nakamura, PE Past-Chair Derek Sato Pres-Elect Matthew Tio [email protected] Vice Pres David Lebowitz Henry Lee, director of system operation, Troy HCES Rep: Derick Kam Secretary Justin Choriki Uyehara, superintendent of operating planning, Alternate: Froilan Garma Treasurer Joshua McDonough and Michelle Sakata, operations engineer, for Advanced Tools and Methods for Integrating Board of Governors NEXT ASME-HAWAII GENERAL Renewables and DER. Lee, Uyehara, Sakata, Willie Diguc, PE, Kevin Luoma, PE, Paul Scott, Dan MEMBERSHIP MEETING and the System Operation team applied and Mestas Date: Date yet to be determined for in person tested EPRI tools to more efficiently integrate meeting depending on COVID-19 status, such renewable and distributed energy resources on as current State Social Distancing proclamation We encourage everyone to visit our website to the electric grid while maintaining reliability relaxation, vaccine implementation, and for up to date meeting announcements, events of Hawaiian Electric’s generation supply. and sponsorship opportunities. We have been depending if remote-virtual meeting Jimmy Yao, manager of electrification of handling COVID-19 with virtual meetings conducted. As usual, all members, students transportation, for Electric Vehicle and throughout the society year, and are excited to and guests are invited and encouraged to Infrastructure Modeling for Deployment continue to provide our members and guests attend our meetings. Programs. Yao was part of a collaborative team with more ASHRAE related content and events! of eight utilities from 13 states that investigated ASME PRIVACY POLICY Our website can be found here: incentives – such as free parking, HOV lane ASME members and affiliates may have https://ashraehawaiichapter.info/index.php. noticed that the March 2021 Wiliki was not sent access and green electricity – for advancing Upcoming event: ASHRAE Annual Golf future electric vehicle adoption across different out via the usual ASME-HI website/webmaster Tournament email notification. We were informed that direct customer demographics and segments. ASHRAE Hawai'i's 33rd Annual Golf email to members would be a violation of the Alan Hirayama, principle distribution Tournament is coming up on May 07, and Society’s privacy policy as we are not to be in planning engineer, and Alan Lee, senior registration is open until Friday, April 16. The possession of member’s contact information. distribution planning engineer, for Probabilistic tournament will be held at Ewa Beach Golf Club, This includes emailing the student section and Hosting Capability. The duo incorporated and check in will start at 10:30AM. We are its advisors. time-based probabilistic analysis capability for offering a registration for 4 players teams at the growth of distributed energy resources Clarifications from ASME are sought and $950, and (3) sponsorship options: Bronze (Tee a meeting to discuss future communication across Hawaiian Electric’s five-island service Sponsor only) $500, Silver Sponsor (includes territory. options is to be held on Thursday, March 11, bronze + (1) 4 player team), and Gold Sponsor Karin Kimura, director of environmental 2021. Clarifications will include: 1) Must all (includes bronze + (2) 4 player teams). We division, for Accurate Assessment of NO2 emails be sent “blind copied” only and only to always have great prizes, and this year will be (Nitrogen dioxide) and NOx (Nitrogen oxide) members that have provided written consent. no different. Please visit our website registration at Fossil Fuel Power Plants. Kimura’s This specifically pertains to the distribution of page for more information as well as to register research/analysis improved understanding of documents as the ASME Group Mass Email at:https://ashraehawaiichapter.info/meetinginfo in-stack ratios of NO2 and NOX to better assist Console (GMEC) does not allow attachments, .php?id=174&ts=1614041713. 2) If you are considered as “friends” or generating units in meeting air quality standards “colleagues” and we mutually, but informally and achieving permitting of the units. consent to the sharing of personal information Hawaiian Electric employees win EPRI EPRI is an independent nonprofit that (email address & phone numbers) with one 2020 Technology Transfer Awards for conducts research, development and another or others (if multiple people are on the innovation demonstration projects for the benefit of the email thread), is ASME Hawaii now allowed to Leaders recognized for research, results to public in the U.S. and internationally. email directly or must written consent still be advance clean energy Membership is comprised of more than 1,000 provided under the presumption that any organizations worldwide including electric communication from or regarding ASME Hawaii Seven Hawaiian Electric employees have utilities, business, government agencies, topics are considered as “official business”, 3) been selected to receive the prestigious Electric regulators and public or private entities involved If you are not an ASME member or have not Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) 2020 in some aspect of the generation, delivery or opted-in to receive section emails, the Technology Transfer Awards in the Power use of electricity. The annual EPRI Technology understanding is that no ASME Hawaii event Delivery & Utilization and Generation Transfer Awards spotlight the value of notifications can be sent to you, and 4) How can Technology sectors. The honor recognizes their collaborative research to the electricity sector ASME perform volunteer recruitment for the leadership and innovation on collaborative and customers, and recognize the leaders and Francis R. Montgomery Competition, research and technology projects that innovators who have applied EPRI research to MATHCOUNTS Competition, or other volunteer produced significant results. produce significant results. events that are not ASME events when the “These awards are ultimately about results GMEC does not allow for its use for non-ASME that provide meaningful benefits to the energy events? industry and the public, while helping make These are some examples of the Privacy electricity more reliable, efficient, safe, Policy questions we are seeking answers to. affordable, and environmentally responsible,” The Wiliki will still be posted on our Hawaii said Colton Ching, Hawaiian Electric senior vice Wiliki Section website, http://www.asme-hi.com/ so president of planning and technology. “We please continue to check for the latest edition couldn’t be prouder of our employees and their Advertisers every month. We unfortunately will not be able exceptional contributions to advancing clean to notify you when the latest Wiliki issue has energy technologies and initiatives.” The Wanted been posted as we have always done in the winners and awards are introduced below. Wiliki_Apr2021_Wiliki Sept06 3/23/21 7:06 AM Page 7

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2021 HAWAII MATHCOUNTS TABLE 2 Big Island Chapter COMPETITION , from Page 1 Chapter Chapter School Name Student Name Rank As a nationwide policy, a minimum of 4 Big Island Chapter Parker School (Kamuela, HI) Noa L Rickards 1 competitors from each chapter advance to the Big Island Chapter Parker School (Kamuela, HI) Nichita A Corduneanu-Laiu 2 Chapter Invitational. If a competitor was the top Big Island Chapter Parker School (Kamuela, HI) BJ Daoust 3 score from their school but not within the 20%, then that competitor advanced. Table 3 Maui Chapter CHAPTER INVITATIONAL RESULTS-HAWAII Chapter FEBRUARY 25, 2021 Chapter School Name Student Name Rank Moving on to the State Competition on March Maui Chapter Maui Waena Intermediate School (Kahului, HI) Aaron S Omuro 1 25, 2021, Thursday at 2:00 pm, are 23 Hawaii Maui Chapter School (Makawao, HI) Kalai Romanchak 2 mathletes (Top five scores from each chapter, Maui Chapter Seabury Hall School (Makawao, HI) Colin A Rosenthal 3 plus the next ten scores from the rest of the Maui Chapter Seabury Hall School (Makawao, HI) Catherine U Hampe 4 state). Tables 2 to 5 show the advancing Maui Chapter Iao School (Wailuku, HI) Kip T Watanabe 5 competitors to the State Competition. The 2021 Raytheon Technologies Table 4 Honolulu Chapter MATHCOUNTS National Competition is Chapter scheduled for May 8-11, 2021, previously as an Chapter School Name Student Name Rank in-person competition; however, it will also be Honolulu Chapter Washington Middle School (Honolulu, HI) Keisuke Kwong 1 online using the AoPS Contest Platform. Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Ryan Eto 2 Nhut Pham of the Hawaii Society of Honolulu Chapter (Honolulu, HI) Ian Jun 3 Professional Engineers (HSPE) coordinates MATHCOUNTS activities for Hawaii. Under Honolulu Chapter Punahou School (Honolulu, HI) Ashley J Hong 4 these different COVID-19 conditions he Honolulu Chapter Punahou School (Honolulu, HI) Nathan L Yu 5 communicates with coaches, parents and competitors encouraging them to participate Table 5 Others Advancing to State: passing on information, dates, reminders and Chapter School Name Student Name results. He thanks the participating coaches, Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Danwoo Kim parents and competitors for their efforts to make Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Nicholas Biega this year’s competition possible. Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Benjamin Kim Honolulu Chapter Washington Middle School (Honolulu, HI) Hong Jin L Kwak Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Aaron P Ching Honolulu Chapter Washington Middle School (Honolulu, HI) Sage Villaplaza Hawaii Society of Honolulu Chapter Washington Middle School (Honolulu, HI) Katsutoshi V Yamamoto Professional Engineers Honolulu Chapter Iolani School (Honolulu, HI) Owen T Banks A state society of the National Society of Professional Engineers Honolulu Chapter Highlands Intermediate (Pearl City, HI) Kyson M Nishitomi P.O. BOX 3774 HONOLULU, HAWAII 96812 Honolulu Chapter Punahou School (Honolulu, HI) Kaitlin J Qu

http://www.hawaiispe.org/ HSPE Officers for 2020-2021 FINAL REMINDER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING President Irina Constantinescu [email protected] 21ST ANNUAL BANQUET Vice Pres: vacant Past Pres: Sara Doi [email protected] Friday, April 30, 2021, 11:00 am–1:30 pm Secretary: Majella Stevenson [email protected] Awards program and 4-course gourmet Treasurer: Kurt Kunimune luncheon (with proper sponsorship) [email protected] HOD '19-'21: Mike Silva To learn more about this year’s banquet and [email protected] secure your ticket or table sponsorship, Big Island Dir., NICET Chair '19-'20: please visit https://www.eng.hawaii.edu/allevents/ Curtis Beck or contact Justin Scott at [email protected]. [email protected]

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