Rocketry team headed to national meet
The seven-student rocketry team from Damien Memorial School has been invited to the national Team America Rocketry Challenge on May 10 in Virginia.
Damien was the only Hawaii team to qualify, the school announced. It has been seven years since any Hawaii team went to the nationals.
In order to qualify, the students had to make a rocket that reached an altitude of 825 feet and returned to the ground in 48 to 50 seconds. Out of 713 teams nationwide, 100 were invited to the nationals.
The Damien team conducted its qualification launches last Sunday at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe. The team’s first rocket exploded in midair in December.
Woman struck by pickup truck
A 26-year-old woman was in stable condition Saturday after she was hit by a vehicle in Niumalu on Kauai. She was standing next to the passenger side of a Toyota SUV at the Menehune Fishpond Lookout around 9:55 p.m. Friday when she was struck by a pickup truck heading up Hulemalu Road.
The driver of the pickup, a 38-year-old Koloa man, crossed the centerline, drove into the lookout area and sideswiped the SUV, Kauai County said in a news release
The woman suffered serious injuries and was taken to Wilcox Hospital. The driver of the truck and his infant passenger were not injured.
Court helps clean up garden
About 30 Kauai Drug Court clients and six staff members have spruced up the National Tropical Botanical Garden at Poipu, trimming native loulu palms, mulching vegetation and clearing spider webs.
They were treated to lunch by the Friends of the Kauai Drug Court, a Kauai United Way Agency, the Garden Island reports. The project took place March 28.
Drug Court has three major community service projects with participants providing more than 370 work hours, said administrator Joseph Savino.
