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TMT Providing Needed Funding For Hawaii Island Students, Teachers and Programs
The Thirty Meter Telescope recently recapped its multi-year funding for the THINK Fund and Workforce Pipeline Program in one document.
As you may already know, TMT has been funding $1 million per year to the THINK Fund for Hawaii Island STEM endeavors through the Hawaii Community Foundation and the Pauahi Foundation that focuses on Native Hawaiian recipients.Since 2014, TMT has funded a total of
$5,130.924.85 to the THINK Fund initiative (
THINK Fund at Hawaii Community Foundation $3,848,193.64 and THINK Fund at Pauahi Foundation $1,282,731.21). This kind of unprecedented funding positively impacts Hawaii Island students, their families and teachers.
In addition, during this time, TMT's Workforce Pipeline Program has dispersed an additional $2,500,000 to Hawaii Island programs including elementary, middle and high school robotics, science fairs, Girls Engaged in Math and Science Program (GEMS) and most recently, Camp Laniakea, where 30 students from the Puna Emergency Shelters learned to dream, play and explore STEM.
Quick Facts
The THINK Fund at HCF has benefitted 26,000 students and 1,000 teachers on Hawaii Island.
The THINK Fund at Pauahi Foundation has funded 34 college scholarships with all students funded for their entire academic careers.
The THINK Fund has provided funding for programs and grants to 47 elementary, middle and high schools on Hawaii Island.
TMT has provided over $1.3 million for the highly successful Akamai Workforce Initiative that has provided STEM internships to nearly 400 students (24% Native Hawaiian & 47% underrepresented minorities) from Hawaii.
Click here for a complete recap of the plethora of schools, programs, non-profits and classroom grants TMT has funded on Hawaii Island.
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TMT
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.
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