1. The Akamai Maui Short Course

2. Akamai Maui Short Course Informational Talk, 1/24/06 The Students  10-12 Maui- and Kauai-based students: from MCC ECET program, UH, mainland 4-year schools  Students spend the summer in an internship with a local high-tech company  We track their progress  Weekly meetings  Research expo (July 28 on Maui)  [Optional] participation in the SACNAS conference (October 26-29 in Tampa)

3. Akamai Maui Short Course Informational Talk, 1/24/06 The Program, part 1  One-week short course: May 30 - June 3  Goals: Mostly attitude  Comfort in a lab/research setting  Ability to form investigable questions  Boldness in asking questions and proposing solutions  Communication: writing abstracts, presenting inquiry results to each other, making posters for research expo  Familiarity with AO technology and uses  Subject material is geometric optics, light & color, AO - considering revisions at PDW

4. Akamai Maui Short Course Informational Talk, 1/24/06 The Program, part 2  Two half-inquiries  Camera Obscura and Sun Shadows  Two full inquiries  Lenses & refraction and Color & light  Two topic units  Image processing, light detectors, AO & wavefronts, Gemini AO game  More advanced, hands-on, practical, directed  Time to meet summer mentors  Lunch and project discussion  Group visit to an internship site  Cultural history of Maui and Haleakala

5. Akamai Maui Short Course Informational Talk, 1/24/06  More about AO  ?? Logistics  Have two instructors plus host  Need a planner/lead instructor, maybe another instructor?  Planning starts at PDW: earliest Short Course  Min. monthly videocon meetings with Mark H  In progress/development this year  Connection with high-tech community  Sense of what the internship will be like  Post-internship opportunities  New topic units?  Image processing  Circuits & light detection

6. Akamai Maui Short Course Informational Talk, 1/24/06 The Pitch  This is a great program! The students are very engaged, and Mark and MCC are developing new and exciting programs and partnerships