Kauai Community College has unveiled its brand-new 18,000-square-foot Daniel K. Inouye Technology Center, a state-of-the-art facility set to house the school’s electronics, IT and space exploration programs. The college gave the center its blessing last Friday. 

The center is one of several efforts across the state to honor the late Senator. Kauai CC Chancellor Helen Cox said that the center “will forever symbolize our heartfelt aloha for the late Senator Inouye, who saw in Kauai and Kauai CC tremendous potential to lead in advancing technology for the Pacific Region.” 

The center primarily serves the college’s electronics program, which prepares students for careers in analog and digital electronics, computer and Cisco networking technologies, programming, optics and telecommunications. It also features the NASA-funded Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory, which serves as a satellite tracking and control facility for the rockets that launch from the Pacific Missile Research Facility.

Photo: Students in Kauai CC’s new technology center. (Courtesy of UH.)

— Alia Wong