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Masons union helps Momilani

Members of the Hawaii Masons Union recently spent two Saturdays installing a large concrete slab at Momilani Elementary School. The slab was the first step toward providing students with playground equipment on their large, empty upper playground.

Without their help, the project would have taken months to complete and would not have had the same quality.

HPU students win contest

Hawai'i Pacific University students took top honors in the Hawai'i site of the Association for Computing Machinery's Pacific Region Programming Contest, an international collegiate computer problem-solving competition.

The Pacific Region comprises colleges and universities in Alaska, British Columbia, California, Hawai'i, Oregon, Nevada and Washington.

Student teams from each designated site simultaneously competed during a five-hour period to solve programming problems using software programming languages C, C++ or Java. Teams were ranked according to the most problems solved, with ties broken by time and by the number of incorrect problem submissions. HPU took first- and third-place honors while Brigham Young University-Hawai'i students took second place.