MegaWorld: Hawaii

Product Description

A STEM Curriculum Resource for Engineering and Science students.

Travel to the biggest, fastest, most exciting engineering, automotive and construction projects across the globe. This series highlights a variety of innovative and awing scientific feats in different countries.

MegaWorld is a fun, fast paced, experiential approach to presenting a country or region’s innovations in science and technology. Projects Include: – Manufacturing of the world’s biggest truck – Transportation on Canada’s epic ice roads – Futuristic skyscrapers in the fastest growing cities – Conceptualizing the strongest rocket on the planet -Traveling underwater in a high-tech submersible – Testing and perfecting Formula One race cars – Development of floating house communities – Retrofitting San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

Hawaii

Megaworld Hawaii exposes the amazing technology and science of one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations. We catch up with Japanese extreme-sailor, Kenichi Horie, as he attempts a Guinness world record trip from Hawaii to Japan aboard the world’s most advanced wave-powered boat. Then we burn our feet mapping flowing lava from the world’s most active volcano, in the accompaniment of Jim K, Hawaii’s foremost expert on volcanoes. We watch the world’s most powerful underwater vacuum, Hawaii’s “Super Sucker,” as it sucks alien algae off the ocean floor, and then travel even deeper underwater in a high-tech manned submersible. And that’s just a start, from sand to surf, we’ll expose Hawaii like you’ve never seen it before.