KONA-KOHALA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: THINK Fund Assisting Students with Robotics and STEM Travel Cost

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Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on Nov. 30.

The Thirty Meter Telescope project launched the THINK Fund in 2014 with a commitment of $1 million per year for Hawaii Island STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) endeavors. The Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF) and the Pauahi Foundation administer the two Funds with scholarship, classroom, student and STEM programming initiatives with Pauahi focusing on Native Hawaiians recipients. Since 2014, TMT has funded $4.5 million to the THINK Fund initiative.

The THINK Fund at HCF advisory committee recently approved expanding funding guidelines aimed at assisting Hawaii Island students with travel costs when traveling off-island to attend robotics competitions or STEM conferences in Hawaii. Public and public charter school teachers in grades 3 through 12 are encouraged to apply for DonorsChoose funding of up to $500 per student with a maximum of $7,500 per teacher, per school year.

Teachers are encouraged to apply!

Complete funding guidelines can be found at https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/thinkfund

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The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project has been developed as collaboration among Caltech, the University of California (UC), the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), and the national institutes of Japan, China, and India with the goal to design, develop, construct, and operate a thirty-meter class telescope and observatory on Maunakea in cooperation with the University of Hawaii (TMT Project). The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), a non-profit organization, was established in May 2014 to carry out the construction and operation phases of the TMT Project. The Members of TIO are Caltech, UC, the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a TIO Associate. Major funding has been provided by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation.

For more information about the TMT project, visit tmt.org, www.facebook.com/TMTHawaii or follow @TMTHawaii.

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