Katumasa Robert Ueno

• Personally scouted for my experience that I accumulated from routesetting in a well-known climbing gym in Japan and enticed by the challenge of creating a brand new climbing community in Hawaii where there was little to none at all.
• Created logo designs and all forms of media for every event to garner high expectations before each occasion.
• As the Assistant Head, I am there to implement and direct my vision to the team to setup our community for success. This entails creating climbs that specifically teaches certain skills to level up their climbing.
• Currently, the gym has retained and gained more members every year due to the multitude of events held every year and the constant high-quality routesetting that is being done by the routesetting team.

• Another opportunity to develop a climbing community in Kona of the Big Island.
• Unlike HiClimb, there is zero climbing community, and, as a result, the routesetting style also changed as we are trying to introduce climbing to a community that has no prior knowledge of the sport.
• The challenge is immense because the opening routes set can either push the gym to glory or force the gym to close.
• After many months, the gym is doing relatively well, with members increasing every month and now a youth program is being implemented.

• The company focus was to share the joy of climbing through their climbing gyms and the products that they created. I found this to align with my goals as a person enjoying rock climbing, but wanting to contribute more to the rock climbing community.
• As a Chief Designer, the first major project was to create a new brand identity for the multiple climbing gyms that the company owned. The original concept of the gyms was a non-commercial look that demonstrated a mom and pop look. This included from a cartoon logo to no standardized interior design for any of the six locations. However, the company shifted its motive of wanting to aggressively expand. Because of this, a new logo was necessary and one that can be easily placed next to other established brands/companies, but remained distinct and recognizable when by itself. This also meant a brand new website, new merchandise, and standardized interior design.
• Second major project was creating a marketing package for specific products that the company was selling. This includes climbing holds and an app that would help facilitate the experience in a climbing gym. The image for these products was "with our holds and app we can increase the joy of being in your gym". This entailed photoshoots to create just the right image, creating social media posts, building and updating websites, etc.
• As a Routesetter, the gym catered from beginners to pros that are competing in the Olympics. The learning curve to be able to create climbs for such a wide range of skills was enormous. Through immense rigorous training for 1 year, the company was able to mentor me to have the ability to work at any facility/ any climbing competitions and bring value.
• In my second year, there were multiple opportunities to set a competition simulator for Olympic Athletes and International Competitors. This entailed multiple days with no rest every month setting problems that they could possibly see in the Olympics or International Competitions.
  

Division of Gene Regulation, Institute of Advanced Internal Medicine

Hideyuki Saya, M.D. Ph.D.

• Initiated in creating an innovative method to form a near perfect brain tumor model in mice that should increase the survival rate and decrease costs.
• Main workforce in creating the different plasmids required for the construction of the brain tumor model.
• Helped with trial injections and electroporation of constructed plasmids into mice.
• Also, looking at possibilities of using this method as a form of treatment for cancers.

Department of Translational Molecular Pathology

Sendurai A. Mani, Ph.D.

• Performed low dose drug treatment on breast cancer cell lines that should prevent stem cell formation.
• The drugs used are 5 azacytidine, Aza-deoxycytidine, DZN, and GKS J4. The cells lines observed are HMLE, HMLE TW, MCF7, and SUM159.
• Looked at splitting cells, mammosphere formation, and stem cell membrane protein markers with GFP antibodies.