So without further ado, welcome everyone to the January NASA Night Sky Network webinar. Tonight's webinar is kicking off 2018, NASA's year of human space exploration. Each month there will be themed materials and resources and tonight we have Patricia Moore here to tell us all about it. Hi, Patricia. Hi, how are you guys doing tonight? Hope everybody's doing well. Glad to be joining. Do we just go ahead and get started? Before we get started, I wanted to do a quick activity, a new feature that we're going to have now on these monthly webinars is just highlighting one of the Night Sky Network activities related to each month's topic. So it'll take two minutes and in honor of pushing the frontiers of space exploration, we're going to commemorate America's very first satellite, Explorer One, which was launched into space 60 years ago today. So congratulations, America. We did it. The Night Sky Network Planet Quest toolkit features a very cool demo called, Why Do We Put Telescopes in Space? And I thought that would be a good topic for this evening. So while Explorer One might not be on the tip of your audience's tongue, a lot of people know about Hubble. And you might want to ask them why they think we spent all that time and energy and money putting a telescope up in space. A lot of times people will say, well, we have clouds here on Earth or rain. You can mention light pollution in cities. And of course, half the time we are in daytime, and it's very hard to see the Night Sky with the sun out. So while we're incredibly lucky here on Earth to have this atmosphere, it's not always great for observing. Let's take a look at the atmosphere we are talking about. There really isn't too, too much of it. If you have a ball about the size of a basketball, if you shrunk the Earth down to this size, most of the atmosphere would be just about a paper width thick, so very, very thin atmosphere. But our space satellites have to go up about 300 miles or so, which is about the thickness of this bubble wrap that we're going to use to demonstrate the atmosphere. So if you're outside, you can do this. You point to a star on the horizon and see if they notice anything about it, and it's often twinkling that they'll notice, and that is due to our atmosphere. If you're inside, you can use something like this light right here. So we just have a little light in the toolkit where you can get one yourself. I'm going to turn off the green screen for a minute so that I can show you how this works. So I hand my visitors a telescope. This is just a paper towel tube with that same atmosphere on it, and ask them to look at the light through the atmosphere telescope. For you joining us from home, I'm going to go ahead and you might want to move your telescope a little bit. There you go. Can you see that star is twinkling with the atmosphere from Earth? But if we go above the atmosphere, no more twinkle. That's really nice. We get a lot more information about that. So quick challenge for you all. Put your telescopes on. Don't worry, nobody can see you. No peeking through your other eye. That's if you actually have one of these telescopes. But you guys, I'm going to see if you can figure out which space object I am holding up. Put it in the Q&A. No, put it in the chat window there. Can you figure out? Oh, there's a lot of problems with this. There's some glare. What have you got? Yeah, we've got a nebula. Good guess. Yeah, excellent. So as opposed to seeing something from Earth, it would be a little fuzzy. You can see this is the lagoon nebula. And it's much easier to see these from outer space, which is part of why we put telescopes in space. It's avoiding the atmosphere. The activity has a lot more background. And you can find it. I'll put the link here in the chat window. And if you're watching this after the fact, you can see the link in the below. All right. So yeah, I just found something literally this morning in the archive room. It was from this bound thing from 1980. And I just opened it because that's when I was born. And I'm like, ooh. And there's an old paper about the Hubble Space Telescope, the design of the instruments, a very dry thing in the actual society of the Pacific publications. So I thought that was kind of neat. And I was like, oh, anyway, since we're talking about old spacecraft, it's a very old thing. Anyway, I'm all right. That's great. Thanks, Dave. And now for our featured program, I want to introduce Patricia Moore. She is a NASA museum liaison. She works at Johnson Space Center in Houston, but she is actually working for headquarters. She has more than a decade of experience equipping museums and science centers with relevant and up-to-date resources. Patricia shares NASA's efforts to enable human exploration into deep space. And we're so honored to have you here with us tonight, Patricia. Tonight, I think she's going to tell us about the NASA's current and future plans for human spaceflight and outreach resources. So please, everyone, welcome Patricia Moore. All right. Hi, everybody. And thanks for having me tonight. I'm going to share my screen and pull out my slides so we can kind of walk with us together. All right. All right. So that's like the last one. We don't want to start at the bottom. We want to start at the top. All right. There we go. All right. So thanks again for having me tonight. What I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of go through the focuses of the human spaceflight and exploration operations directorate, which is if you're familiar with how NASA's structured, that's just one of the big over umbrella entities of NASA. And so we're basically responsible for everything that has to do with getting humans into space. It's the human spaceflight and operations part of NASA. And then after we talk about what we're doing right now, efforts to get humans farther into deep space and onto the moon and eventually on Mars, then we'll close talking about some of our outreach efforts for 2018 and our monthly topics that we hope that you guys can be a part of and utilizing the resources and the programming that you do in your communities and even giving us some feedback on types of resources you'd like to see in the future. We've just started 2018. We haven't even released the March activities and lessons and resources yet. We're hoping to do that next week if I can get some final things approved. So feedback is always great. So let's kick it off with what our goal. So NASA has an overarching goal and a vision and so does human spaceflight. So we want to help expand human presence deeper into the solar system. And NASA wants to be the leader in that effort. And we are and we are and but we're not going to do it alone. And that's kind of what some of the main areas we want to talk about tonight. So this is one of these great internal charts that we use at NASA to talk about our steps in our in our phase one, phase two, phase three, but it kind of helps break it up. And it may not be the best for kids, but for people who are a little bit more interested in NASA and kind of understanding of the long-term goals is it kind of helps break things up into our phases. So in phase zero, which is what we're in right now is pretty much everything that's going on at the moment. And the major focus is low Earth orbit. So in phase zero, we have the International Space Station. International Space Station has been in space for many, many years and NASA has promised to continue working with our partners to at least 2025 and maybe even longer. But that's what we've made the commitment to that far. And we've got multiple countries from all over the United all over the world working with us. And the way we like to look at Space Station is it's a flowing laboratory. It's a it's a in space, it's a research lab that allows us to do science experiments and testing that we can't do here on the ground. And there are many types of science experiments and research that take place on the Space Station. But here's a few that focus on some of the challenges and areas that we want to learn more about that so that we would be prepared for deep space missions with humans on to the moon and then to Mars. One of the major challenges is human body. We're very frail. We can build great hardware that's sturdy and can last months and years in a vacuum of space, but we humans are frail and our bodies have a hard time adapting and living in a weightless environment. So there's a lot of studies that we do on our own astronauts to help us understand and eventually be able to mitigate a lot of those challenges. And I won't go into detail on each of those, but it but if you want to do if you want more research or information on some of it you can let me know after after the chat. So I mentioned partnerships. So the International Space Station is the perfect way of looking at how NASA and the world and countries can do partnerships together. We've got 15 nations that partner just with the International Space Station and over 90 nations have been involved in research on the International Space Station. We want to continue that model as we leave the low earth orbit and go on to the moon and on to Mars and bring our international partners with us. So right now happening one of the main exciting things happening in low earth orbit is our commercial and industry partners. Right now we have SpaceX Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada are building and sending resupply vehicles to the International Space Station regularly to provide our crew and astronauts with supplies. So no people yet, but that is going to change this year and at the end of 2019 and for end of 2018 and end of 19 we will start to see our first test launch and then our human crewed launches with the Boeing and the SpaceX crew vehicles. So this is really exciting because NASA is supporting and really leading the efforts to help our commercial entities be able to send humans and our astronauts, American astronauts to the International Space Station. So we don't have to rely on our Russian partners to do that for us and then also to help industry and our economic development grow. So this is really exciting and so you'd be on the lookout for end of 18 beginning of 19 to see Boeing and SpaceX launch their first test and then our and then crewed the International Space Station. So that's all that's happening now in phase one with within the next like year and you know today and then going into phase one is kicked off by the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. So this mission is slated for the end of 2019 with six months of risk built into it which means depending on what happens in life and that's the life it could slip into 2020 but we're holding our partners and industry to that end of 19 date and it's really exciting because the Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful rocket that NASA has ever built. Most of the pieces are already built and are sitting and waiting to be assembled and they will start arriving at the Kennedy Space Center by the end of this year. So the end of 18 the beginning of 19 we'll start shipping all of our pieces of the rocket and of the Orion spacecraft to Kennedy so we can start assembling it in that huge building the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center. So when oh this is just speaking of passing so we these are some of the images of the hardware already built Kennedy Space Center has completely modernized its spaceport built new launch pads and crawler vehicles and mobile launch platforms that will be able to hold this new rocket and they've already have pieces of Orion there and so this is a great image to show that this isn't a paper rocket we are building and almost finished with both of these vehicles and at the end of 2019 we hope to launch it and send it on it 25 or so day mission to the moon. So this first mission will not have crew on it we will always want to test a rocket at least once before we put humans on it but we will send Orion to the moon it'll take us about three to four days to get there it's going to spend a couple of weeks orbiting in this lunar space going farther than the Apollo missions did so we're really going to swing out there past the area that Apollo typically orbited and do some testing on radiation navigation communication all the different aspects of a spacecraft make sure it works well with mission control and then we'll send it home and it'll land in the Pacific Ocean very similar to what exploration flight test one ESP one did in 2014 only then it just went around the earth and came back this is actually going to the moon and then this will kick off phase one and once we're successful in that mission it's approved by congress and it is it becomes part of the budget which we hope it does as soon we will begin our first launch of the deep space gateway and we'll be able to take our first modular first piece of that gateway to lunar orbit so if you're not familiar with the deep space gateway concept this is our kind of an outpost around the moon so before the new administration said that we want astronauts or NASA again to land on the moon to put boots on the ground we were always planning to have a presence in what we call this lunar space and the vicinity around the moon so we could do a lot of testing and and research before we send humans to Mars and part of that was building almost like a mini space station which would be the deep space gateway and as you can see it's only comprised of maybe three modules it's not very big and that first piece would be the power system that would be launched on the SLS and it and Orion would go to the moon and it would be a permanent structure and then we would launch perhaps a habitat module and then an airlock and and this gateway would be a place where industry partners international partners could send a spacecraft to dock and do research in deep space or in the vicinity of the moon what's really cool is it can actually lower itself closer to the surface of the moon and then it can raise itself up so it's not just staying in the same orbit like the international space station does around earth this allows us to go lower to the surface of the moon so we could deploy robotic missions or maybe even human missions they're trying to make it a versatile vehicle and also be a place to connect to before you go to Mars you know this you flying an Orion connects to the space gateway then connects into your transit vehicle to go to Mars and then on to your journey so it kind of like an outpost idea so that's the end of phase one and all this we believe we can get done you know and the next you know five to seven years if NASA receives the appropriate funding to get to get it going then we move on to phase two which kind of expands the deep space gateway having crews live in deep space around the moon for at least a year that will be our checkout mission so our leadership at NASA says if we can have a crew live autonomously in the gateway in a habitat or maybe it changes and we do a surface operation then we know that we are capable of sending our teams to Mars and so that will be our final checkout mission but also part of phase two is the deep space transport concept and this is the vehicle that would take humans to Mars so Orion is not made to live in more than a few weeks at a time so about 14 days for crew of four so this is a great deep space vehicle that can be launched on a rocket sent to the moon to deep space gateway and then it could stay attached to the deep space transport and go on to Mars but it also could stay there at the gateway until the crew comes back and returns and then use the Orion to to slash down on earth so we haven't worked out all those details yet there hasn't been a contract awarded to an industry partner to to build the deep space transport yet and so there's a couple of different designs I've seen pictures and images of what Boeing's would look like and what Lockheed's would look like so their companies are already thinking about what that vehicle would look like that would take humans on to Mars and there's some pretty cool concepts out there and then of course a habitat would be also part of phase two is having a place for astronauts to live in orbit around the moon for a lengthy period of time like kind of like we do on the station we have six months rotations well this could potentially be you know one-year rotations and those habitat designs and concepts are already kind of in in the beginning phases with different industry partners I know that Boeing has one and Lockheed Martin and Bigelow has an expandable module that's on the International Space Station now they're looking at how that how that would work you know an orbit around the moon so there's lots of companies that are already working with NASA to put together concepts and they hope to have you know full-scale prototypes within the next year or so and then NASA would choose a design and and fund it to to be a part of this deep space exploration system so all of these the vehicles like Orion, SLS, the Habitat, the Gateway, the transit vehicle that takes us to Mars these are all part of our deep space exploration system all right and so there used to be a phase three area but recently the the the verbiage and the text was taken off the charts because we're kind of reworking it and waiting to see what the president's budget proposes our efforts and and if before it didn't have anything specific on lunar operations and putting humans on the surface of the moon since that's happening now other kind of waiting to see and we'll get more direction and more specifics on on that once a budget is released and then approved by Congress so um and with all that you know you get a lot of outreach and in kids and families you know they want to talk about Mars you know there's a lot of amazing things that are going to happen close to earth around the moon in the next 10 to 15 years but you know going to Mars is the ultimate goal and a lot of times I get asked the question well why haven't we been to Mars yet why don't we send people there now and and then we remind them as I'm sure you do too that there are a lot of challenges and a lot of technology that just hasn't been to developed and invented yet and that's one of the reasons we want to inspire young people to go into STEM careers because NASA's going to need help there are hundreds I would say thousands of NASA employees throughout retirement age now they're from the shuttle the shuttle generation and they're you know in their early 60s or late 50s and they're looking to retire in the next five to ten years and they're they say all the time when I talk with them it's like we need new young people with fresh ideas coming in behind us because we're retiring and you know we're getting tapped out and so and so these are the types of challenges for Mars exploration we need the in-space propulsion you know is there a better efficient propulsion methods that we can use to to maybe cut our travel time to Mars in half and we're exploring some of those now um entry descent and landing we haven't figured out how to land huge cargo payloads on the surface of Mars we need the capability 10 times greater than curiosity that's how much supplies and we have and rovers and everything we need and we don't have that capability yet you know so I won't read them all to you guys can read but these are just some of the challenges and areas that you can talk with your your groups about on how we need help and we need new ideas these are the things NASA's working on right now and on our oh let's get the head let me go back so our first mission to Mars and NASA really wants to have it in the 2030s and and if we fix the timeline and money is appropriated the the right way we can we can make that goal and just like during the Apollo mission we may find our first mission to Mars either a fly-by mission to Mars where we don't land we just fly and orbit around the planet and then come home or maybe we do some exploration of Phobos and Deimos and this is a really beautiful image you've may have seen it before but this graphic illustration is what I could say physically correct in that that's how big Mars looks like from the Martian moons that they're very close to Mars compared to our moon and and landing on them is much much easier much easier than landing a huge habitat and all the systems and everything we need for for a mission to Mars so I'll close with this slide and then I'll pause to give a chance to take some Q&A before I go into our outreach resources but if you get questions like you know why do we need to send humans to space what's the value I mean these are these are NASA talking points and you can do with them at what you want but you know knowledge is important you know human exploration helps us inspire to seek knowledge and to learn more and we always need to learn more as a species as humans and it makes it makes us have a better world and economic growth is really important STEM careers are typically a high skilled workforce and and and we need high skilled workers to take on the scientific jobs the engineering jobs and to help us establish partnerships and help us you know go out into space so economic growth is huge and then overall you know space exploration provides a better future you know it advances American leadership we want to be the leaders in spaceflight and NASA is and will be for a very long time and and with these partnerships that we can have in science and exploration with countries that maybe typically we don't have such great political partnerships with them but we can have really great scientific and exploration partnerships with them so so there are lots of great things besides even all the spin-offs there's tons of books on you can read off spin-offs that come from space and the space program but you know it's important um and so I hope I talked really fast to get through things but if you have any questions about the the human spaceflight story and what we're doing right now I'm happy to pause and take some questions and then I can get into the resources in a bit looks like we have a couple questions in the q&a queued up if you want to can you see those Patricia would you like me to let me oh let me get out of my presentation hold on let me stop sharing and maybe I can see nope here it is all right here it goes oh I see it um let's see oh pillars of creation we're good yeah I'm looking at the commercialization of manned spaceflight what's the current status of Orion so Orion is is a deep space vehicle it is different than the commercial very different than the commercial vehicles that are being built um by Boeing and SpaceX their vehicles are made to go to the international space station only um they are not robust and that they could not go to the moon um and they may be able to go to the moon but they probably they wouldn't be able to come home safely the the entry reentry of the spacecraft coming from the moon in deep space is it's incredibly difficult and the the heat and the type of heat shield and reentry capabilities is incredibly different than what would it would only be to come home from 250 miles which is where the space station is so Orion is completely funded and is is going forward we've tested it once it'll fly on a space launch system in about two years and it will be NASA's vehicle to take humans away from Earth orbit so Orion will never fly to the space station it was never designed to go to take astronauts to and from the station we are going to be relying on our commercial partners to to operate and take humans and cargo to and from the space station from this point on artificial gravity so I love when people ask me this question because right now we don't have artificial gravity but there are so many people that are looking into it even outside of NASA I would just talk to someone a few weeks ago that that that used to work at the beginnings of the development of the international space station even when NASA was partnering with Russia with the mere space station and he was asked to do research and designs and come up with you know could we make artificial gravity and and it's possible it's just really hard to control the the rotation and the spinning so I know this is something that you're looking at and for really long duration missions to Mars we we need something that has artificial gravity because being in space for that long is really hard on the body so NASA doesn't have something that works but I know that there's research and development taking place within NASA and even outside of ways to make make it happen um let's see the well the deep space gateway orbits the moon or earth with the moon so the deep space gateway is only going to orbit the moon we are going to take the three proposed pieces modules to the moon and it will stay in orbit around the moon we have a great space station around earth it's an amazing laboratory and in this deep space gateway is it made to be another international space station it's made just to be a gateway or a quick outpost that you stop to before you go on to to Mars or before you go down to do a lunar operation with the long duration missions to Mars how would the radiation shielding be developed great question and so right now there isn't a magic material that protects our astronauts from radiation um they'll get the highest dose when they pass through the van allen belt and we did do that um during eft one they were able to get some decent um decent readings on radiation um right now and it sounds kind of funny but right now what astronauts will do if we are expecting a large solar flare is they the inside your line and there's even a video I could share that you guys can see um as they get down at the bottom of the spacecraft and they put a bunch of bags and materials and supplies and all sorts of things on top of them to shield them from radiation if they were going to have a solar flare so when I share that with you that it's obvious that NASA doesn't have a solution to really long-term radiation exposure um the the special um magic or whatever you call it whole of the spacecraft or material hasn't been invented but right now the best thing we can do is layer with different materials um well autonomous missions advance to stage in the next 10 to 15 years that humans can avoid radiation hazards from deep space if one year duration moon turns out too dangerous will this prompt development of highly advanced robotics I don't I don't know I will have to see I know that NASA and the world wants to have humans on the surface of the moon again and wants to send humans to Mars and so I think that's that the hope is as the technology advances that we be able we'll be able to have that that solution to radiation because right now we don't we don't and that's one of the reasons we haven't gone to Mars yet have there any but have there been any significant setbacks in long-term health presented in space from the mark Kelly you're in space so I wouldn't say any major setbacks they haven't released everything from the study they've just released bits and pieces some of the big things that did I hear medical doctors and what we call flight surgeons that NASA talk about is the the issues with the eye when you're in space you have a fluid shift and when you have that fluid shift there's a lot of pressure that's put on the the optical nerve and in in your brain even and that causes pain it causes headaches and it also causes some in some cases extreme change in vision and they have different different machines that that are doing testing on the eyes of the astronauts right now in the space station they even have a ultrasound machine and and that those sorts of things they're trying to figure out how to fix that and they have it yet so that's just one example I know that he was very weak when he came home being in space even when you're exercising two to three hours a day it's just not the same and so there's a lot of physiological things and I think having some sort of artificial gravity would fix a lot of those issues but but but not all of them you touched on lots of corporate memory as senior scientists retire is the problem competition for talent by private companies or a degradation of science teaching in the US well I don't I don't know which which it could be could be a little better all I do know that NASA works very closely with private companies and so you have NASA civil servants which are managing and stewards of the government's money and stewards of NASA's money and our leadership but then the majority of people that work in this space industry are actually corporate or what we call industry partners that your lockheed's going orbital atk rocket jet aerodyne you know Jacobs engineering and you can go on and on and so NASA we're already worked very closely with these entities and I know that they recruit and NASA recruits and the hope is that the kids just go into STEM fields we do want to make we do want to inspire students to take STEM to go into STEM careers you know so I think it I wouldn't say there's a lack I don't think the issue is a competition with NASA but maybe we could do better job of getting kids excited and providing opportunities for them to know that it's STEM careers possible for them this is my personal opinion though um the space gateway sounds fascinating how what will they set security issues for this if humans can only be aboard for 14 days so 14 days in an Orion so let me be a little bit clear so Orion astronauts can comfortably live inside of Orion for about two maybe three weeks stretching it at the very most but the deep space gateway will be larger than just an Orion spacecraft and would have a habitat module attached to it so it would give it the much more space not as much space as the International Space Station has it has the volume of about a three-bedroom home which is really roomy but um but they would give them enough room the same amount of room that they would imagine astronauts would have if they were transiting and journeying on smart so that's what that checkout mission would be let's put a habitat around the moon that's going to be about seeing them on a space that a crew of you know however many people we send them are maybe let's say four would live in for you know eight months or so and let's see how things go so that that's more what I meant sorry to confuse you and then looks like the last one for now would be how will the new spacecraft be powered will they will they use green propellant so right now there the technology we use in space to power our spacecraft is the same type of that we've used all along but with the research that was done in the last eight years or so for the asteroid redirect mission which was canceled but the technology and the information that we learned about the solar electric propulsion that we were considering using on that mission all of that research is not in vain and we're considering using solar electric propulsion in our transit vehicle that would go on to Mars that's just one one idea so so yes we if we can get it working and got it efficient and get it safe and reliable then the hope is that we would be able to use solar energy to help us get to Mars but we're not quite there yet how much time do astronauts need daily and artificial gravity environment to offset fluid shifts vision changes and so forth I don't know the answer to that question so I'm not even going to try I probably have to ask somebody a little bit smarter than me to give you a good answer let's see what consumables we need to be fairy yes so if you're going to the deep space gateway they the hope would be eventually just like the international space station our industry partners would be able to have spacecraft that could take astronauts to the space a deep space gateway eventually one day or even cargo cargo would be a lot easier because there's really no reason for the cargo to come back you know you're just taking supplies up and then you don't need the spacecraft anymore our industry partners would have to like Boeing and SpaceX would have to create a whole new type of vehicle to be comparable to NASA's Orion spacecraft because of the reentry capability um you're coming in at 25 000 miles per hour instead of about 1700 miles per hour the the surface that your spacecraft experiences is about the temperature of the surface of the sun so it's it's pretty intense so um yeah they would definitely need to have unconsumable sense to the gateway and maybe before we take any more let's hear what you have and we can take some more questions at the end if we have time yeah yeah that's good i'm just excited about your resources too i haven't seen them yet okay good all right so let's share my screen again get this going all right so um all of heo which is this a human space flight exploration operations group within NASA is kind of coming together to do a celebration of different areas of human space flight that are what we feel and hopefully you feel too or exciting to your audiences and to the public and to highlight the different work that we're doing now and what this will be happening in the future so we've broken up the year and by monthly topics and each month um it's going to include um a suite of resources you'll you'll we'll start off with key messages and story focus so you'll have talking points and attend a 15 minute presentation with script that you can start with and modify and add to or take away as you see fit we'll include a lot of videos that fit within that theme um any social media shareables that we develop with our graphics team here at NASA will make those available to you um print products um as you know NASA doesn't have the funding to mail out goodies to people anymore it's been like that for a really long time so what we do for museums and informal groups is we provide the PDF files or the layered designer files that you can take to a print shop and get things printed um any education and outreach and activity lessons that are created by our education office that fit within those themes will have a handful of different activities that fit a variety of age levels um I mentioned raw files for designers especially in museum for you have your own graphics um team or your department those raw files are really helpful when you're building exhibits or creating um graphics or doing something special for your center and then sometimes we'll have opportunities for virtual outreach events our teams like to do facebook live events sometimes we do skype events or sometimes they're on like a nasa youtube or not get nasa use stream channel and opportunities that are virtual to to you know hopefully in march we hope to have our flights um our mission manager um talk from mission control about exploration mission one and what it will be like to kind of operate um the mission from mission control and and so we're looking at things throughout the month and unique events that people can be a part of so we'll go through each of the the quarters um and then um and then i'll kind of highlight what we've done so far for january and february and what you can expect for later on in the year so january we're kicking it off with the space station because everything starts with the space station learning and doing research on the station to prepare us for um deep space and then february is the year of education on the international space station if you didn't know we are going to have two educators on the international space station this year so our educator astronauts doekaba and ricky arnold will both be um in missions over the course of this 2018 time frame um and so that there's a whole suite of resources and activities that fit within the year of education on station um march focuses on the heroes of space exploration not just our astronauts but kind of people behind the scenes and the unsung heroes and the groups and individuals that help support our human spaceflight missions and then april may and june we're highlighting our deep space exploration system focusing on the iran and april the space launch system rocket in may and then june our exploration ground system so the kennedy space center team is responsible for launching the vehicle for assembling the vehicle launching the vehicle and then splash down in retrieval recovery operations so highlighting all the really cool work and career opportunities and unique things in that group as well july we're going to have some resources that focus on the 60 years of nasa celebrating that um august talking about partnerships together we go farther partnerships with industry partnerships with academia partnerships aglore so how do we utilize partnerships at nasa to help us achieve our goals september would be focusing on the march generation all the young people now who will help get us to mars and the opportunities and and stem careers and in ways to get kids excited about coming and working at nasa or for an industry partner one day and then october november and december kind of wraps up the end the ends in our future missions so looking to go our mission prep humans to mars will probably be more focused on the moons and initially when we rolled out these topics we're waiting to hear back from the white house in congress to see what our our directive is and so october may be a much more moon focused in doing those missions to the moon before mars and then november is traveling to the red planet everybody wants to know what those astronauts are going to do for eight months because they're in their spacecraft on the way from mars and so talking with the nasa experts and kind of what they have in store and plans for those eight months and then december closing it off with marge orbit mission and then a surface operation so that's your habitats your spacesuits your vehicle that would land on mars institute resource utilization living off the land um geology that that um you get your that's going to be needed to be able to find the rocks and to learn about the surface and so so that's kind of what we're looking um for overall throughout the year and the plan is to have those resources available one month if we're good maybe two months before the month kicks off so that's what we've been able to do so far with january and february those resources are already available and like i mentioned the march heroes and space exploration will be available by the end of next week and you can find these resources not on the regular nasa website you actually have to go to the nasa museum alliance page and the link at the bottom is where you go and this page is open to everybody so even if you're not a museum alliance member you should be if you're not because it's free and it's a great resource but even if you're not this website is open to everyone and when you click on that particular month like january living in space um it takes you to a dropbox page and so i um put together files and resources and packages unique to the needs of museums and science centers they don't want youtube videos just like you probably don't they want the original hd files they want layered graphic files they want um the unique type of resources that i wouldn't put on a nasa website for the average joe to have access to so um so we provide links instead so we go through key messages presentations and you click on whatever you want and it'll take you to either a dropbox folder where you can download it or it'll take you to the nasa webpage if it makes sense to send you to a nasa webpage and that's what we've done for the year of education on station as well and as new resources are developed and these groups and programs share with me new things i will add them to the list so i know they're going to be a host of what we call um stem what do they call them stem or forget the name of it this group is they had um there's a really cool they're a trendy name they're calling it stem at stem stations or stem stem experiences on the international space station i can't remember what it's called but they're going to make new videos and new demonstrations almost every month and so we'll upload the information here so you don't have to scour the nasa website looking for resources i'll put what i feel is the best and the newest available to you here and uh so with that the question to you guys is what types of resources are most valuable to you um i typically impole that presentations are incredibly helpful with scripts and videos and activities you know but if you have a unique um need it's always helpful to know what types of resources are beneficial and we can add that to our our um list of products so i'll turn it over again but any other i'll go ahead sorry oh i just have a question for you the url it wasn't really showing up on the screen you had informal dot jpl dot nasa dot gov and yeah let me go back and then i hit the very bottom content yeah that last part just bless your heart oh you did okay good ado 2018 great thank you so much i was just trying to find it yeah no problem all right let's see it is also on our resource page yeah so it will be on the main resource download page um where you'll find this webinar by the end of the week and um lots of other content and links that's great i'm ready to go to the space station just in case you're still taking astronauts yeah no i wouldn't go to i always tell some people ask me do you want to go to space and i said i will go to the international space station i might even go to the moon but i am not brave enough to go tomorrow take a special kind of person to go that far that's just a little too far for me i'm with you that's great yeah i'm so i'm gonna go and know your q and a yeah in the chat that says presentations that we can use for astronomy club meetings are great yeah that's really super yeah and um some of them are easier to make than others like the heroes in space exploration is the one i'm working on right now and march also happens to be women's history month and so i'm trying to do two one on generic behind the scenes folks that help nasa and um unique careers that you don't hear about and and maybe people who have saved the day that stories that you may not have heard about on the news and then the other one i'm going to work on is this women history um in space exploration um and so uh those kinds of things if they're new and they haven't been created it takes a long time to get approved because every any presentation i make has to be approved through headquarters and you know things that kind of move slow in the government sometimes um but like april may and june there's tons of materials out there already you know and then celebrating 60 years of NASA so some like i said some months will come out maybe two months in advance and others will be a little bit slower it just really depends on on um what's all going on internally and how many new products have to be created and then how many things are already in existence that's great um it looks like we've got some more questions in the q and a and if anyone has more questions about the resources to let us know there yeah some ideas for which might might be useful to you and your settings all right so i'm going to ask about radiation testing or solar for solar radiation players or the concentrated on the van allen belt oh so right now it was both they did some radiation testing when iran flew through the van allen belts and were able to get great readings on how how what kind of exposure they would experience and how and and if enough if a lot of protection is required but um their biggest concern would be like long-term radiation exposure traveling through space um because you know the astronauts on the moon got decent a set of you know radiation exposure and they were only there for a few days we're talking about having an outpost there for a year um and then you know mars missions the mars doesn't protect you from radiation either so um so they're looking at testing and and new materials for for really focusing on the deep space radiation exposure um what is your opinion on a one-way trip for mars that is proposed so my opinion is actually lines in with nasa's opinion is that we want to send astronauts into space to the moon to mars and bring them home that's how we do business and i i i'm i'm on board with that um there are some brave souls that might be happy to get shipped off to mars and left there um i i would not be one of those people and i think that would be really rough for for americans now especially with social media and as much as we can see and learn i think that the way to go is to plan a mission to get people there and to bring them home and then once we establish a a a martian you know habitat and a colony then yeah if people want to stay and live there and stay there that's one thing but to start things off nasa's very big about building infrastructure and building the capabilities to get people into space and then once that capability is developed then then you know we can expand and do more um so what's the best way for college students to obtain an internship at nasa and do you need interns to work with you so there are several ways to become an intern at nasa there are two programs there's the internship program that is run out of the office of education or now they're called the office of STEM engagement is what the new name for education office at nasa and they have internships available all at all centers and there's an online i'll find the link i might have to just google it i'll do it in a minute we have to finish with this because i don't want to accidentally hang up um you fill out what you're you're kind of like your resume and what you're interested in and they match you with a mentor and a program that's looking for someone with your skills and um and so that's one way if if you want the path to enab the government civil servants um past which would be like a government employee they have a program called pathways and pathways is is is like i said a pathway to a government employee to be um a nasa employee and not an industry partner um employee um and then those are a little bit harder to get um but um but sometimes um students will do a couple of internships through the office of education and then go on to have a pathway internship through nasa and then there's um of course internships with like a SpaceX and Boeing and Lockheed and Orbital ATK so um you have your traditional ones of nasa industry partners and then with nasa education and do i need to intern yes i need to intern but no i but i don't i don't have an intern um there are lots of different kinds of interns not just engineers and science and STEM fields we have business interns legal interns communication interns educators that come in for internships to marketing internships um so there are lots of different career paths and i always tell kids um that no matter what you choose to do in college you could probably find a a debt that type of career or your expertise at a nasa center because it takes all kinds to run the agency um our club has also been asked questions on african-american astronauts astronomers and resources so this would be nice yes so one of the the things we're going to do for humans and in exploration is of course has a diverse group of individuals highlighted through our women and then also through our through our just general heroes in space are there any voyager-like missions to the outer solar system outside the solar currently planned so i'm not as as knowledgeable about robotic exploration as i am on human space flight i can tell you that there is a europa mission plan to send a robotic mission not like going as far as voyage or to my knowledge there's not like a really really deep into the solar system mission planned at the moment but um we're planning to launch a europa robotic mission on the space launch system rocket so that big rocket that's been a carrier ryan is also going to have the capability of carrying larger satellites and larger space probes than ever before it has the payload of about 12 the volume of about 12 elephants and the um evolvable but even larger rocket that will eventually be created could carry the payload of like 22 elephants so um so in that mission will probably happen as of right now in the timeline between exploration mission one and exploration mission two or it could be swapped in exploration mission two with humans could happen with sls and then the europa mission would be afterwards they're still working out that timeline i think that's all the question that is fantastic oh patrick thank you so much for joining us this is amazing really you're welcome all of this information i'm excited for this next generation to be able to become a part of it that's very cool thanks everybody for all of your outreach i know that you do with the general public and with schools and you've really done such an amazing job thanks for telling us about them um i think that's it for tonight just a big thank you yeah yeah and if anybody wants to stay in tune with what's going on with me if you're not already hooked into the museum alliance that's one way to do it but about every month or so i send out a net blast or an email when something new and cool pops in and so just shoot me an email and say hey sign me up and then i promise i won't spam you it's usually like i said maybe once a month and only if it's something worth sending i won't 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and welcome to Restaurants Hawaiʻi on Think Tech Hawaiʻi. I am your host, Cheryl Matsuoka, the executive director of the Hawaiʻi Restaurant Association. And today, from the lens of Hawaiʻi Restaurant Association, we are reviewing 2022 and providing a preview look into 2023. At this time, I'd like to have my two guests please introduce themselves. Hi, Ryan Tanaka. Hi, good morning, Cheryl. How are you? Great. Could you please introduce yourself to our viewers and members? I'm Ryan Tanaka, principal and CFO at Kai Hawaiʻi, which is a structural engineering firm. I also run our investments and so I focus on diversification. We have a nice money market portfolio, an affordable housing portfolio that I created a few years ago in partnership with the city. So we did those seven projects. Last year, I acquired a commercial sewer company that I also run and then we service sanitary sewer systems, stormwater and rain gauges, do a lot of flow metering. I also have a financial consulting company, island business management that I want to operate. And then last, I'm the managing partner and CEO at Giovanni Pestrami, as well as CJ's and Roundtable Pizza at the Houttu Hōmi village. Wow, Ryan. Wow. Do you sleep? Thank you so much. I have a great wife and great children. That's how I can do it. Yes, yes. And now Greg Maples, could you please introduce yourself? Yeah, I don't know if I can follow that very well. That's pretty dang impressive. I love Ryan Tanaka and what an incredible guy he is. My name is Greg Maples. I'm the vice president of operations over culinary services at the Polynesian Cultural Center. I'm also an adjunct professor at BYU Hawaii and have enjoyed probably about five years with the board of directors at the Hawaii Restaurant Association. So that's me. Thank you. So Ryan Tanaka is our current chairman of the Hawaii Restaurant Association and Greg Maples is our past chairman of the Hawaii Restaurant Association. So if any two people know what Hawaii Restaurant Association has been doing in 2022, it's these two gentlemen. And 2022 was a very pinnacle year for HRA. And I looked up the definition of pinnacle and it is the highest point of commotion, right? So the highest point and really and truly that absolutely describes all of HRA's achievements. And at this time, as HRA moves the bar even higher, I'd like to first have our chairman Ryan Tanaka share with our viewers kind of what, looking back at 2022, what were some of the highlights that HRA was able to provide for the food service industry in Hawaii? Ryan? Yeah, it's been, it's been a very busy 2022, starting with we were able to kick off a town hall series for our lawmakers and that allows us to stay close with legislators with making sure that every session that we are not just in the forefront of what bills are being discussed, but that we really have a strong rapport with them. So we identified key candidates who are business friendly, and we brought them on and supported them. So that was one aspect. The second bucket, I would consider are the resources to restaurants. So funding restaurant resolution fund, the employment tax credit, the ERC program, the Hawaii business card, along with the Hawaii restaurant card, excuse me, and along with software technology for restaurants, our job fairs to help them with staffing, and then finally would be community engagement. So it's engaging with our city, with our state, and most recently, our partnership with the U.S. Electronics program under Brotherhood Grants and Sisterhood Grants. And I want everyone to know who is watching this show. Ryan was so instrumental in both the relationships with our lawmakers. The Brotherhood and Sisterhood Grants really was his project that he spent numerous hours not talking about even the amount of investment that he put out for the Brotherhood and Sisterhood Grants because Hawaii Restaurant Association really believes in giving back to the community. And what better way than supporting all of our youth and all of our programs here in Hawaii? So, Greg, look in the rear-view mirror. What was 2022 like? Well, you know, I just loved 2022 for so many reasons. And I want to first talk about that Brotherhood and Sisterhood Grants that Ryan spearheaded. You know, Ryan Tanaka only knows how to do one thing, one way, and that is world-class. I went to just a couple of those many events and they were so well done. What was so great to see is that we not only, not only was a world-class event, but the people that were there. I mean, we had government officials, we had business, you know, very important business people all together in the same room. We had people from the University of Hawaii Athletic, not only directors and coaches, but we had players. We had all these people under one roof. I just can't tell you how exciting it was to be a part of those. And I want to give Ryan a real big out-of-boy for that because I think that went a real, it went really a long ways to build that relationship that I think was one of the big things that happened in 2022. And that was solidifying our relationship with our government officials. Victor Lim, who is a franchisee for McDonald's, if you live in Honolulu and you don't know Victor Lim, you must have just moved here. Everybody knows Victor. He's such an incredible guy. He's been on our board of directors for so long. And I just can't say enough good about him. I spent the other evening at the 75th HRA birthday anniversary with him. And I just love that man. I just love that man. And so he worked so hard for us. And we continue to look at what's, you know, building those relationships. That was really big in 2022, getting our voice heard when it comes to legislation and setting ourselves up for the legislative session in 2023. Which, by the way, is going to run from January 19th through May 5th. That is a busy time for all of us. And hopefully a busy time for those who watch this show because in today's world, we have to pay attention to what's going on in our legislature. Ryan mentioned the second round of the HRC, the Hawaii business, the business holiday card that came out. I think there was over $750,000 that went into the food service industry from this card. This was huge, phenomenal, unprecedented, never done before in the history of Hawaii, never done before in the history of the Hawaii restaurant industry. And so to put $750,000, Cheryl, I want to put that at a boy on your back because you rode that horse like it was, I mean, yeah, you did such a great job with that. And I give you credit for that. You did such an amazing job to make sure that we rolled that out correctly. We have the restaurant revitalization fund and our partnership with the SBA. We've tried to up our relationship with them and that's been really good. They've got such great people to work with over there, don't they? I mean, the people who are doing the RRF and who came on, I think that you had some of them on this show and other people who are trying to help the people of Hawaii, they're just such incredible people. Let's see, what else? Well, you had the free hiring event that comes to my mind. The industry is struggling with employees. We're still struggling with employees. I think we'll talk about that later. But we're able to partner with the HRA, partnered with the American Job Center. And coming up on January 10th, it's a Tuesday from nine to one at the Dole Canary, by the way, there'll be another free hiring event. And so mark your calendar. If you're struggling with employees, this is another really great place that you can go. And we can't ever forget our good Mayor, Mayor Rick Blangiarity, who I came to know, a love and appreciate during the pandemic and the time that we got a chance to spend together. His pushing the Oahu's sidewalk pilot program, the dining on the sidewalk, those restaurants who were able to participate that, not only were able to expand their dining footprint, but which meant they were able to get more sales. It sounds like a small thing, but it's really, it's one of those 1% that makes a big difference.  HRA also distributed over 20,000 COVID test kits. And a big mahalo goes out to Chefzone for allowing us to use their parking lot. And to Abe Kwok, who was the project leader, who is going to be taking Ryan's place in June of next year. Abe is an incredible man. We're also lucky to even know him. But 20,000 COVID kits were passed out. Those were passed out by actual people who volunteered to come and do it. And we're so grateful for that. So we've had so many initiatives in 2022, because we're coming out of COVID.  And I want to even say even more, if I had a dollar for every tier you shed over restaurants that were hurting, you and I would both retire millionaires. And because you care so much about it, and I want to say thank you to you. And we're in such great hands going into 2023 with Ryan, you, Abe, and some of the others on our executive committee. So that's kind of my high level overview of 2022. Thank you. Thank you so much, Greg. And another way that Hawaii Restaurant Association was able to keep our restaurant doors open and our restaurants and business was the employee retention credit. Ryan, you know how many people kept asking me, is can I apply for this? But I got PPP. Can I apply for this? And there were so many questions, Ryan. And you know, for a fact, how many businesses we were able to convince, right, Ryan? What was our motto? Just apply. What do you have to lose, Ryan? You want to touch about the employee retention credit a little bit? It's just extra federal relief that's available. And so if you haven't already applied, please do. There was a company that began calling our members and just following up with them. And I talked with them and asked how many restaurants that they've spoken with had already received it. And every single one of them did. So it reassured me that, Cheryl, you know, all these efforts were not in vain, that for those who didn't receive it, they did receive it. But he was only about 15% through his list. So I'm not sure where he ended up with, but hopefully, you know, for all those watching, if you have not already applied, there is money available for you through ERC. So please apply and hopefully you'll receive a number of checks. And, Ryan, you know, I keep mentioning it to our restaurants and businesses because it's not only restaurants, but any business that was impacted by COVID, you still can apply because it's a credit, right, Ryan? You want to kind of touch about that because it's not too late, right? Yeah. I don't recall the number of years, but you still have quite a while to apply. So it's a credit, which means that it's for payroll already paid back in 2020, 2021, and even into 2022. So you have the chance to receive three separate payments back. And it's from money's already expended, you have years left to apply for it. So there's really no loss if you haven't already applied. And there's no, you know, reduction in what you receive. So the money sitting there, it's available. Again, please apply as fast as you can to make sure you secure your money. And many times, gentlemen, you know, that's what I spend most of my day just communicating to our restaurants and our businesses that there are other ways that you can be including credits, right, on top of all the different ways that you can save money, which then helps your bottom line. And that's what Hawaii restaurant is all about, is helping our businesses and our food service industry stay in line. Okay, so now we're going to turn around and we're going to start looking at 2023. And what does 2023 bring for our food service industry and our Hawaii restaurants? Greg, you want to take it first? What does 2023 bring? Yeah, 2023, I think is going to bring a couple of challenges. One is going to be the softening of tourism, which we've already started to see. And we see projections going into the new year where they're going to be, it's going to be soft. So, you know, how do we as an HRA help support that? Clearly, we do that through continuing to promote just what you guys talked about, the ERC program, hiring events, etc. You know, the other thing that's going to be weighing, and it's a cloud that stays over our head constantly. And it's the legislation of our government. And it's the ongoing drudgery of knowing that we're headed towards $18 an hour in minimum wage. So somewhere in 2023, we're going to start to fill the effects, the full effects of the $12, knowing that at the end of the year, we're going to take another jump by a dollar. And we're going to have to start really having conversations with our government officials about what is the right dollar amount. Clearly, $18 is not the right amount. That is not sustainable. And it's certainly not something that I would support long term. So, you know, I think that those are some of the things that I think we got to start looking at. The other thing is, and this is something I've been focused on lately, and it's really important to me is we have to work really hard with our government officials to create a place in Hawaii where people want to stay and they want to live. We lost so many wonderful people during the pandemic that left our island and they're now situated and fixed in the mainland. And we're not getting them back. And a lot of them were young. They were some of our children, our grandchildren that left us. And we have got to create an environment where we have affordable housing, where yes, pay is right, but it's got to be right for everybody because you and I both know that we could easily go up to $18 an hour. It just means you're going to pay $75 for a dinner out per person, which is not going to do anybody any good. But we've got to work to try to create an environment on this island where our cakey will want to stay and we'll be able to have some of that tenured, skilled employees. So some of the things that are on my mind are those as well. Thank you, Greg. You are so right. And when we do meet with our government officials and our lawmakers, the first thing they always say is we want to hear from your restaurateurs. We want to hear from the people that's in our community, what exactly is the struggle? Ryan and Greg and Victor, they do a great job communicating what they hear from our business community. But the lawmakers say they need to hear from the actual business owners. So we really encourage people who are in business to contact us if they want to get on our government relations committee because it's so important. You do have a voice and we do need you to support the Hawaii Restaurant Association. I just want to add to that real quick, Cheryl. I know as well as anybody having owned many restaurants how busy people are. But I'm telling you, and I want to speak straight to the people who are listening to this, you have to make time for this. This is not something that you cannot make time for. You have to be willing to go and testify. You have to be willing to go and send the emails, send the text, send, testify whatever it is, and we're going to help you. HRI is going to help you realize what you need to do, right? Cheryl, you're going to be really good about saying, do these things. We're going to be sending things out to help guide you. But I promise you, more than ever, you have to be involved. Or you're simply abdicating your business and your livelihood to those who don't know anything about it. That's true. That's so true, Greg. Very well said because that's what I was trying to say. So, Ryan, let's now look at 2023 and let's just share with our viewers and members. What do you see as the chairman of the Hawaii Restaurant Association happening in 2023? Let me start by echoing some of Greg's comments because the minimum wage discussion was front and center for all of us early this year. And I want to just set realistic expectations that we can fight against it all we want. There was no way that we could have stopped it. And there's no way that I don't really see it to be very difficult for us to try to tear that back down because it's already been passed and because there's now this huge labor market that's looking forward to it. So while the restaurant owners and the employers are getting nervous, you have this contingent that's of Alice's families and people who are struggling who are saying, wow, this is great. We can finally start to pay all of our bills. What we're trying to do is find this middle of the road on the tip credit where you have tipped employees who are getting paid far more than $18, far more than $20, $25. And because of that $7 buffer, they can continue to make that type of money and we can still ratchet down the overall payroll burden through this tip credit. So what we're trying to do is just navigate through that and that's how we would soften the blow on an $18 minimum wage over time. So whether we really tackle it in January in 23 or we wait one more year, it's still on our mind. We have a brain trust that's still planning for that. And it's just a matter of getting the lawmakers on board also and giving that we have a new executive group with Governor Josh Green and Attorney Governor Sylvia Luke just really understanding with the new finance chair in the house, the best way to approach that and work with them in the upcoming, whether it's this session or the following session. So our community engagement remains very active. We will continue to work with our lawmakers in the upcoming session. We are looking at another employer credit. That's another way to soften the blow. There's other things that we can look at, whether it's the unemployment rate and trying to adjust some of those schedules and ratchet those down or whether it's trying to find ways to create subsidies or other innovation in other markets that will indirectly benefit and then eventually directly benefit not just the employer and the restaurateur but also the customer because we want to bring prices also back down. So the community engagement, I would add brotherhood grinds and sisterhood grinds. I'm going to thank Greg for coming down and supporting this program. It really has been profound. UH athletics is our professional sports team and allowing us to come out of COVID where people were scared and confused and really create this clarity on call where we can look towards the future and towards events and excitement all over again. It's a huge milestone for us. That's one side. I would then turn to our market conditions. We don't have any control over the Ukraine-Russia war. We don't have any control over interest rates and over the supply chain shortage and inflation. The fact that we're still at over 7% as early as this past month tells you that it's going to be a while. The federal fund rate has come up to 3.75%. It's arranged, but it's pretty close to that, which means that interest rates are going to continue to climb up. And so to get back down to 2% in inflation target, who knows how many more interest rate hikes we need to experience before we get there. So we're still, everyone's watching that along with exchange rates like Greg said, tourism is going to soften because exchange rates are still very unfavorable to our international traveler. And so hopefully we'll continue to attract the domestic traveler, but the international market is so large for so many of these niche restaurants who cater to whether it's the Japanese, Chinese, Korean or certain of our international travelers. So outside of a restaurant is one aspect, and then I would look inside a restaurant. So in 2023 we'll be finding new ways to pivot, to adapt to changing consumer behavior, whether it's on an ordering, just thinking about the restaurant industry of the future and how we can provide resources to our restaurateurs, to all of our members, so that they can have access to some of these most cutting edge innovative solutions that will create operational efficiency for themselves and for all of their staff. And that's a great retention tool. When staff know that I think the biggest change, we went from a labor shortage to this great resignation earlier this year to now this great retention effort where employers are looking at their employees really more as people first, like looking at their basic needs first, and then as employees second. So what a great change and move in terms of just taking care of our employees, and that's what this is all about. So if we do that, and lead by example, your customers are going to also treat them well. There was the number of instances where employees struggled because of COVID and all the different compliance requirements that were placed on them, these burdens placed on them, many left the industry, like Rick said, they moved completely out of state. So just retraining people on the de-escalation management, re-setting expectations with customers, with employees, and creating that sense of camaraderie again, that healthy culture, that care culture, that we even at HRA, we take so important and we prioritize so much. But also those three things, I would say it's making sure again just to reiterate that we're working with lawmakers, the community engagement, watching everything outside of a restaurant, and then trying to innovate within a restaurant. Those are the three main things for 2023 to look forward to. You know, Ryan said something that reminded me of something, Cheryl. You know, one of the big things that we did in 2022 is we had the Hawaii Hotel and Restaurant Show in February, and that was huge. And we have it coming up again, March 22nd, 23rd of 2023. And that is a really great place to go and talk and meet and, you know, and to get a lot of what when Ryan said we need to focus on the inside of the restaurant, it was very profound.  You can, you know, talk to what's coming, the latest technology, etc. Because we're going to need all of that to help us. I agree with Ryan completely. Well said. Thank you, gentlemen. Really wonderful to have both of you on the show today. Thank you so much for helping us look at 2023 as a positive way. And we're looking forward to the new year. And as always, Hawaii Restaurant Association is there to support our restaurants and the food service industry. My last comment is, you know, to our members and viewers, if you're not receiving our Hawaii Restaurant Association newsletters and industry updates, it's free. 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One of the reasons I continue to give in the places I continue to give on campus is because I want those opportunities to be available for as many students as possible in the future. I'm Stephen Yates. I'm an assistant professor and assistant director in the School of Library and Information Studies here at the university. As an alum, I really always looked at the university as a place that really brought the world to my hometown. We have such a wonderful mix of people that are committed to our students and people that are committed to the success across the board. Just seeing the impact that what we do here at UA is having on education at all levels I think is something that I love to go out and share. It does take all of us giving whatever we can to make sure that the vision of what we see as the capstone of higher education continues to happen in the future. The opportunity to work here pretty early in my career became a goal and so after some time in practice I just wanted to be able to be a part of all of the great things that go on in such a world-class university right here in my hometown. It is a once in a generation, once in a career impact to make sure that the opportunities that I had as a student and that I have as a faculty member now are sustained in this space for years to come.


This paper proposes five artificial neural networks, ANNs, to estimate the compressive strength of concrete at different ages. The ANNs were trained using data from 175, 210, and 280 kGF slash CM superscript 2 mixtures collected from certified laboratories in the city of Jane. The ANNs were then tested on unseen data from other laboratories. The results showed that the networks obtained an average error of 4.69%, indicating their effectiveness and validity for use in quality control in the construction industry. This article was authored by Jose Manuel Palomino Ojeda, Stefano Rosario Boca Negra and Lenin Quiñones Huatongari.