VOL. 45 NO. 4 SERVING 2000 ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS JUNE, 2009 TRIG-STAR PROGRAM FINALE The 2009 Hawaii Trig-Star Program has high school students and the math teachers who Halau Ku Mana – HLSA wrapped up and we now know who the state dedicate all their time in teaching our young Iolani School – Engineers Surveyors Hawaii, Inc. winner is. Once again, in impressive fashion, adults. Far too many times the teachers and La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls – Belt Collins Chloe Honbo has captured the prestigious award math department heads do not get the credit Hawaii Ltd. of Hawaii’s Trig-Star. Chloe is a junior at the high they so greatly deserve for the timeless effort in Leilehua High School – Surveyor’s Supply school La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls. She fin- educating our youth. The Hawaii Trig-Star Company of Hawaii ished at the top of the heap of nearly 200 stu- Program would also like to congratulate Mr. Jack dents with a score of 100% in a time of 51 min- Wade from La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls for Maryknoll School – Lyon Associates, Inc. utes and 0 seconds. his outstanding efforts in preparing the students Punahou School – Sam O. Hirota, Inc. Chloe will now enter the national competition of La Pietra for this competition. Mr. Wade has Sacred Hearts Academy – Akinaka & Associates, representing our state in late June where nearly been awarded a $600.00 cash prize and a koa Ltd. all 50 states challenge to win the honor of being plaque for his achievements as a teacher. Great Kamehameha School-Hawaii – HLSA declared the National Trig-Star winner. I had the job to all the teachers who have worked hard to Pahoa High & Intermediate School – Mr. Jeffrey opportunity to meet with her and award her with prepare their students for this very difficult math Sato competition. a $600.00 cash prize and a koa plaque, she has Saint Joseph Jr-Sr High School – Hubs Hawaii, grown quite a bit since last year and is looking I’d like to thank the corporate and individual Inc. forward to her senior year and competing yet sponsors who make this great program possible Hana High School – Title Guaranty of Hawaii, Inc. again. She does admit though that the national every year, without their help and support for competition is much harder and stressful under these high schools none of this would be possi- Maui Preparatory Academy – Mr. Arthur Sevigny the conditions. I am confident she will do well. In ble. The sponsors cover all the cost for the test- Saint Anthony Jr-Sr High School – R. T. Tanaka addition to winning the plaque and monetary ing materials and awards at the high school level. Engineers, Inc. award Chloe also wins a $500.00 scholarship to If you or your company would like to sponsor a Moloka’i High School – Ace Land Surveying LLC be granted in her senior year, since she was also school or your alma mater in future competitions See also the top 10 scores per school out of the state winner last year she now has accumu- please contact me, Kevin Kea at acelandsur- the participating 16 schools. The last question on lated $1,000.00 in scholarship money. [email protected]. the 4th problem which ask for the area of Lot 3 is I’d like to also acknowledge the other students Participating schools and sponsors include: what stumped all of the students who came in from participating schools, especially the 2nd Assets School – Mr. Royce Jones with a 95% score, if these students would have and 3rd place winners, both from the outer Castle High School – Austin Tsutsumi & been able to solve this portion of the problem islands. Student Yu-Jen Chen from Saint Joseph Associates, Inc. there’s a good chance we would have a different Jr/Sr High School from the Big Island, had an Trig-Star winner, just goes to show you how outstanding score of 100% with a time of 60 min- close this competition is and how a slight mis- utes. Student Malia Hamilton from Saint Anthony calculation can lose your chances of coming in Jr/Sr High School from the island of Maui, she first. More reason why we should be impressed also had a great score of 95% with a time of 43 with the achievements of Chloe Honbo. minutes and 05 seconds. All the students partic- Congratulations Chloe! ipating in this national competition are excellent Submitted by math students trying to solve very complicated Kevin K. Kea, PLS, Hawaii Trig-Star Coordinator trigonometric problems and they all did a fantas- tic job. The Trig-Star Program which is a national com- petition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the Hawaii Land Surveyors Association believe in supporting our Winner Chloe Honbo, Kevin Kea and 2009 Trigstar Top Ten Winners teacher John Wade. Name of Student School Teacher Grade Score Min/Sec 1 Chloe Honbo La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls John Wade 11th 100% 51' 00" http://www.HLSA-hawaii.org 2 Yu-Jen Chen Saint Joseph School Suehere Shehata 11th 100% 60 3 Malia Hamilton St. Anthony Jr.-Sr. High School Paul MacLeod 11th 95% 43' 05" Officers for 2009 4 Anne Kwok Punahou School Christine David 11th 95% 49' 55" President: Arthur Sevigny 5 Jessica Saylors Iolani School Kathleen Goto 12th 95% 50' 34" Vice Pres: Marcus Hoapili 6 Libby Aldosa Halau Ku Mana Ian Onizuka 9th 90% 49' 00" Secretary: Gavin Hirano 7 Keoni Correa Kamehameha School-Hawaii Kawika Rose 12th 90% 49' 12" Treasurer: Winston Ing Director: Chris Guerin 8 Janelle Ho Maryknoll School Lance Suzuki 12th 85% 46' 09" Director: Darryl Cadiz 9 Nathan O'Hanlon Maui Preparatory Academy Keenan Reader 9th 80% 50' 30" Past Pres: Dan Hirota 10 Kaipo Ke-a Leilehua High School Kerry Kawamura 12th 80% 52' 02" NSPS Gov: Kevin Kea Page 2 2009 Corps of Engineers Workshop Spotlights “A Year for Change” By Joseph Bonfiglio, Honolulu District Public Affairs local firms seek out Army contracts which Over 222 local architects, engineers, construc- Kawachika said are always reliable. “The Corps tion contractors and others in related fields and in particular, Corps organizer Gary Nip were attended the 14th Annual U.S. Army Corps of especially proactive in getting the word out to Published monthly by: Engineers Workshop April 21 at the Ala Moana industry,” Kawachika said. “This workshop is vital to our business. 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