HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	175
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

Honoring and congratulating Team hoku from the UNIVERSITY of Hawaii at hilo for their win in the 2015 microsoft imagine cup pitch video challenge – in the games category.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition is recognized as the premier global student technology competition where competitors are challenged to use technology to help solve the world's toughest problems, and the Pitch Video Challenge gives students a chance to pitch a project in a video, tell the story of their project, share their team goals and timelines, and explain what the overall effect would be; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Hawaii State House of Representatives is proud to recognize TEAM HOKU team members BRIAN HALL, THEODORE DEREGO, LUCAS DEREGO, and CASEY PEARRING for their victory in the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup Pitch Video Challenge – in the Games Category; and

 

     WHEREAS, TEAM HOKU's project, reForge, is a 2D online sci-fi sandbox game where players create customizable ships to compete in battles, collect resources, trade in a player-driven economy, and team up to competitively control various parts of the game universe; and

 

     WHEREAS, BRIAN HALL is the business planner and video coordinator for TEAM HOKU; a graduate student in computer science at UH-Manoa, he also serves as director of KeikiTech and provides research support for the Daniel K. Inouye Pacific Basin Agriculture Research Center; and

 

     WHEREAS, the lead programmer for TEAM HOKU, THEODORE DEREGO is a junior in computer science at UH-Hilo, a member of UH HILO-ACM Programming Team, and a programmer at the Daniel K. Inouye Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center; and

 

     WHEREAS, LUCAS DEREGO is TEAM HOKU's designer and program coder and is currently attending Kamehameha Schools-Hawaii Campus; and

 

     WHEREAS, CASEY PEARRING is the art lead, gameplay designer, and backup coder for TEAM HOKU; he is a senior majoring in computer science at UH-Hilo, and a robotics technician and software engineer for the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems; and

 

     WHEREAS, Associate Professor KEITH EDWARDS assisted TEAM HOKU as their faculty member, and students KRISTIN PEDERSON and KELLI YAMANE also supported TEAM HOKU by working on documentation aspects of the game; and

 

     WHEREAS, TEAM HOKU, chosen over all other groups from around the world, will receive a $3,000 prize for their win, and will also advance to the Blueprint and User Experience Challenges in the 2015 Imagine Cup Competition; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, that this body hereby commends, honors, and congratulates TEAM HOKU for their win in the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup Pitch Video Challenge - in the Games Category, and extends to the entire team its warmest aloha and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.

 

 

 

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Report Title: 

Team Hoku; Microsoft Imagine Cup Pitch Video Challenge