The 2024 IfA Mānoa Open House will be April 21st, 11am-4pm!

Free admission and free parking

Event partners and activities:

•  TWO Portable planetariums with IfA and Bishop Museum
• UH Bookstore book and activity sales
• NEW! Straw Rockets with  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Branch at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• NEW! Design a Paper Rocket craft with First Nations Launch Team Ka Hui O’Kaulele
• NEW! Maunakea Scholars and WHMSO with Waipahu High School
• Hawaiʻi Lego Users Group (HILUG) display and Lego® building area
• Fun with Robots with Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium
• Solar system walk
• Hawaii Rockets
• All About CubeSats with Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory
• UV Bracelets with Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory
• Liquid nitrogen demos with NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF)
• Make-a-sundial and Make-a-constellation crafts
• Pan-STARRS and ATLAS sky surveys
• Bottle rockets
• Makahiki games
• Solar viewing and solar spectrum
• Sundial making (in memory of Paul Coleman)
• Spectroscopy School
• Optics
• T-shirt sales
• Ask an Astronomer

Family-friendly astro talks:

• 12:10pm Planetary Defense Goes Green, by ATLAS Project Scientist Larry Denneau
• 12:50pm Challenges of the Ambitious April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Expedition, by IfA Astronomer Shadia Habbal
• 1:30pm Enhanced Night Vision: Sharpening Our View of the Universe with Adaptive Optics!, by IfA PhD student Maria Vincent
• 2:10pm Imaging Other Worlds: Today & Tomorrow, by IfA Astronomer Mike Liu
• 2:50pm A Decade of Finding Real Tatooines, by Astronomer Nader Haghighipour