Island Images

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BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM These are the faces of Montessori Community School students as seen by a thermal camera, one of the demonstration labs at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology's biennial open house yesterday.

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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Emmi Bramwell of Thompson Academy looked through a lens in a physics lab.

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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Students from Aliamanu Middle School showed off glasses used to view a bathymetric map of the Mariana Trench. The glasses allow elevations in the trench to be seen in 3-D.

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A CULTURAL OFFERING
FOR THE AUTUMN MOON

RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM Kikuko Nobusawa of the Urasenke Association of Hawaii performed a tea ceremony yesterday evening at Tsukimi no Kai, or Moonviewing Party, at Kapiolani Community College. The event celebrated the autumn moon and featured traditional Japanese food, sake, and cultural activities.

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BLOOMING ATTRACTION

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARBULLETIN.COM The Honolulu Orchid Society's 64th Annual Orchid, Plant and Flower Show opened yesterday at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. Among those attending were Yoshi Kishinami, who looked at an elaborate display of hybrid orchids by Hui Okika O Kunia. The "mad scientist" on the right is a mannequin in a display called "Mystic Lab, 13 Mystery Lane."