CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARBULLETIN.COM
Standing in the background, Regina Hung, left, Thai Ha Sloan, Maya Rezzonico and Alyssa Fujiwara, all St. Andrew's Priory students, reacted yesterday as 468.8 pounds hung from their popsicle stick and glue bridge during an engineering contest at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM
Preschool children from the Early Education Center stopped yesterday to watch the Christmas tree being situated in front of Honolulu Hale. The tree, harvested Wednesday in Mililani, was planted at its original site around 1983 in memory of a nearby family's daughter who died of leukemia.