Dominic Gaspar
Profession & Company:
Machinist Apprentice at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF
Education Background:
BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
What made you decide to become a mentor for Kapolei Robotics?
The experiences I had as a student member of the Kapolei Robotics team helped me to pursue an education in engineering, and I am grateful for it. Now, with my experience as both a mechanical engineer and a machinist, I would like to give back to a program that gave me so much.
Hobbies & Interests:
Machining, building Plastic model kits, collecting action figures, and going to art museums
Interesting fact(s) about you.
I was a member of UH Manoa's Team Kanaloa. We competed in the 2018 RobotX Maritime Challenge, an international competition which focused on the development of autonomy and robotics in maritime applications. I was a member of the electrical subsystem which is, coincidentally, the same subsystem I was on in high school robotics.