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2009 Solipsys Kaua`i Island Scholarship Winners Announced
KAUAI, Hawaii (Jan. 18, 2010) – Raytheon Solipsys named the winners of its 10th annual $2000 Kauai Island Scholarship Contest.
This year’s theme, Ecology & Technology, One Hot Topic, focuses on how technology can be used to help reverse global warming. Four categories of students competed for first, second and third place prizes. The contest was open to all students living on Kaua’i and ran from November 3 to December 1, 2009. Entries were judged by Solipsys employees at the Network Application and Integration Facility in Lihue.
“Congratulations to our scholarship winners,” said Mark Trenor, president of Raytheon Solipsys. “We are pleased to be able to offer the opportunity for Kaua`i students to demonstrate how important technology is to Kaua’i.
The winners are:
For the 1st through 3rd grade category:
- First Place – Luke Sullivan
- Second Place – Martina Aquino
- Third Place – Roland Palmer
- First Place – Emily Sullivan
- Second Place – Eosin Chelius
- Third Place – Natalie Kerr
- First Place – Thomas Sciaroni
- First Place - David A.P.Y. Ochoco
Students from grades 1-3 submitted a poster; grades 4-6 a PowerPoint presentation and included three or more pictures; grades 7-9 a PowerPoint presentation with six or more pictures; and grades 10-12 a PowerPoint presentation with nine or more pictures which described how technology can be used to reduce or reverse global warming on Kaua`i.
This year students from Kekaha to Lihue submitted more than 40 entries, including 24 applications from one school and 16 from another.
Raytheon Solipsys has locations in the West Kauai Technology and Visitor Center in Waimea and in Lihu`e at the NAIF on Pahe`e Street.
Raytheon Solipsys is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company. Headquartered in the Maple Lawn campus in Fulton, Maryland along the I-95 corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., it is part of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems reporting through Global Business Operations. The company specializes in creating and applying its innovative software solutions to command and control, information shared awareness, deep sensor reach, aircraft control, air defense, disaster management, and time-critical decision making.
