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Registration Now OPEN For Lacy Veach Day 2025!
Save the Date!
Sunday, October 20, 2024 9:00am - 3:00pm (HST)
Institute for Astronomy, UH Mānoa
2680 Woodlawn Drive, Mānoa
Parking available at Noelani School, with additional street parking
Astronaut Lacy Veach Day of Discovery is a FREE STEM event filled with activities, workshops, and demonstrations highlighting space exploration, Polynesian voyaging, rocketry, robotics, and hands-on educational opportunities designed for students in grades PK-12.
Complete event activities to earn stamps for your Space Passport!
Agenda
Agenda
9:00am - Doors Open
Activity booths will run throughout the day
10:00am - Opening Keynote
Featuring The Solar Wind Sherpas
11:00am - 11:50am - Workshop Session I (for registered students)
1:00pm - 1:50pm - Workshop Session II (for registered students)
3:00pm - Event closes
Step 2 (Optional)
Step 2 (Optional)
Workshop Registration
Workshop Registration
Open to Grades 3-12 Students
Waitlist Information
Waitlist Information
WORKSHOP SPOTS ARE NOW RESERVED.
If you are interested in signing up for a workshop, you will need to pick up a Waitlist Ticket at the event.
Waitlist tickets will be given out to those who are not currently registered for a workshop.
A limited number of waitlist tickets will be available for all on-site workshops on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please read the following rules so you are prepared when you arrive:
Limited Spots: Each student participant is allowed ONE waitlist ticket (while space is available).
Grade Level Limit: Students in grades 3-12. Must be accompanied by an adult. Please make sure to select a workshop that is grade-level appropriate.
No Doubles: Student participants who are registered for a workshop ticket are ineligible for a waitlist spot. They may not swap workshop sessions.
Waitlist Process
Workshop Preference: Have ready your list of workshops in order of preference from 1 to 8.
Claiming a Ticket: Please head to the Workshop Check-In table on the day of the event to claim an available Waitlist Ticket. Waitlist Tickets will be given out based on availability. Session (morning or afternoon) swaps are not allowed.
Arrive Early: Participants must check-in at the assigned Workshop Room 15-minutes prior to the start of the workshop.
Called by Order: If space opens up for a workshop, Waitlist Ticket numbers will be called in the order they were reserved.
No Repeats: If your Waitlist Ticket number isn’t called, you are not eligible to sign up for another waitlist spot.
Workshop Registration Information
Workshop Registration Information
Want to participate in one of our workshops?
Workshops are 50 minutes long and run in two sessions. They are offered at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Please read the information below to ensure you have all the information you need and understand the expectations before signing up for a workshop.
Registration Limit: Students will be allowed to sign up for a maximum of ONE workshop only. Additional registrations will be invalid.
Grade Level Limit: Students in grades 3-12. Must be accompanied by an adult. Please make sure to sign up for a workshop that is grade-level appropriate.
Check-In Process: If you are registered for a workshop, please head to the Workshop Check-In table on the day of the event to claim your ticket. Participants must check-in at the assigned Workshop Room 15-minutes prior to the start of the workshop to secure their spot.
NOTE: Workshop participants who do not check-in 15 minutes prior to the start time of the workshop risk forfeiting their spot. Once the workshop begins, no additional participants will be admitted.
Due to capacity limits, only the registered student and accompanying adult are allowed in the workshop.
Design a Mission Patch and bring it with you to Lacy Veach Day!
Featured Activity Booths
Featured Activity Booths
Planetarium Shows
(tickets provided on day of event)
UH Institute for Astronomy
Newton's Racers
University of Hawai'i at West Oahu
Build simple balloon powered rocket cars to learn about and demonstrate Newton's Laws of Motion.
Fly Like a Pilot
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
Test your piloting skills using an RC simulator! Guide your aircraft through the air as you perform an array of acrobatic maneuvers.
Let's Get Up & Tinker
Queen Ka'ahumanu School's Tink Think Tank Tech Team (T5)
Join us for hands on tinkering activities that may include papercraft origami, PlayDoh Makey Makey, building in Minecraft, anime animation, costuming, dancing, & more explorations!
Space Frontier
FAI Architects
Gamify building cities on the moon and Mars using skills from architecture, city planning, and interior design.
Introduction to Electronics
Hawai'i Science and Technology Museum
Learn about electronics and electricity in hands-on activities building your own circuits!
US Navy and Hawaiian Navigation
Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum
Check out a demonstration of a sextant (US Navy) and how it applies to Hawaiian Navigation
The Fantastic World of Fossils
Leeward Community College
See some extraordinary remains of life from the past and get a chance to take home a genuine fossil specimen.
Dancing for Structural Engineers: Testing Duplo Towers
KAI Hawaii
Have you seen a building dance? Build the tallest tower you can out of Duplo blocks and see it shake and sway on our shake table! Experience a quick peek at the design process Structural Engineers use to keep buildings standing, even as they dance during earthquakes.
Soda-Straw Rockets
Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program
Using math, engineering, and scientific testing, students will design and create a paper rocket launched using a soda-straw and their breath. Later, they can make adjustments to length, fin angle, or nose-cone to improve on the simple paper rocket.
Stomp Rockets
Windward Community College
Construct a paper rocket and watch it fly!
Robotic Claw Challenge
University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Team Robotic Space Exploration (RoSE)
Build a robot claw using paper, straws, and string, and complete a task with your claw to win a prize!
High-Power Rocketry and Electronic Payload
Honolulu Community College
Learn and see demonstrations by HonCC Space Grant students as they showcase high-power rockets and electronic payloads for competitions and events, at First Nations Launch, RockOn, and ARLISS.
Paper Airplane Contest
University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Engineering
Design a paper airplane with the goal of traveling the farthest!
Hurricane Hunters to Whale Warrior
NOAA's Inouye Regional Center
Work together to remove a derelict fishing net from a 6-ft inflatable whale! Learn more about careers at NOAA and try out flight and gumby suits.
Investigating Impact Craters
Bishop Museum
Form and inspect impact craters!
Microscopic Discoveries
Chaminade University: I Am A Scientist
Discover the microscopic world hidden in plain sight using powerful microscopes and simple hand lenses
VEX Robotics Demonstrations
Nanakuli Golden Hawks Robotics Program
Check out robotics and workcell demonstrations by the Nanakuli High and Intermediate School students.
Mars Helicopter
Hawaii Space Grant Consortium
Build a paper Mars Helicopter and watch it fly!
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Education
A cosmic light exploration with water beads!
Exploring the Earth through Small Satellites
Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory
Learn how objects in space orbit with our gravity well activity, see the life-size models of our small satellites, and learn more about what the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory does!
Straw Rockets
AIAA UHM SB (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Students will learn how to make their own straw rocket and watch them fly towards the targets!
Civil Air Patrol and AOPA Pathway Program
Maryknoll CAP and AOPA Pathway Program
Come and learn about Civil Air Patrol and the AOPA Pathway program while learning how to fly drones!
"You can never believe the beauty of island Earth until you see it in its entirety from space... the best place to think about the fate of our planet is right here in the islands." -Charles Lacy Veach, Astronaut
"You can never believe the beauty of island Earth until you see it in its entirety from space... the best place to think about the fate of our planet is right here in the islands." -Charles Lacy Veach, Astronaut
This is the celebration and special day honoring the life and legacy of Charles Lacy Veach, who grew up in Honolulu with an interest in science, had a distinguished career in the United States Air Force, and went on to fly two Space Shuttle missions. Astronaut Lacy Veach serves to remind us all that the dreams of today can be forged into exploration and discoveries of tomorrow.
This is the celebration and special day honoring the life and legacy of Charles Lacy Veach, who grew up in Honolulu with an interest in science, had a distinguished career in the United States Air Force, and went on to fly two Space Shuttle missions. Astronaut Lacy Veach serves to remind us all that the dreams of today can be forged into exploration and discoveries of tomorrow.
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