Press Coverage & Publications
Pathways to Invention
Levi C. Maaia is directing the independent documentary film "Pathways to Invention." Inventors and inventions are all around us proving that we all have the power in our minds and hands to shape the world. However, even the most accomplished makers and creators often...
Popular Pig Podcast – A Consumers Perspective of Modern Pork Production
Popular Pig Podcast 2/10/2022: A Consumers Perspective of Modern Pork Production| Levi Maaia Levi C. Maaia is the director of “Pathways to Invention” a documentary on Lemelson-MIT award-winning inventors. He was in Iowa City recently filming at SwineTech for the film....
Amateur Radio Newsline – Island Center Radio Station
Amateur Radio Newsline™ 10/14/2021: Report 2294 Amateur Radio Newsline covered the $35,550 grant that Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club received to build a radio station at the new Chrisman California Islands Center in Carpinteria, Calif.
Noozhawk – Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Dedicates Facility to 40-Year Volunteer Bill Talanian
Santa Barbara Noozhawk 1/13/2021: Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Dedicates Facility to 40-Year Volunteer Bill Talanian Noozhawk featured an article about the outgoing and incoming K6TZ trustees at the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club. Levi C. Maaia assumed the role...
Tracking Transpacific Airliners: VHF, HF Radio & ADS-B
Amateur radio operators aren’t the only ones using HF on a daily basis for reliable, long-distance communications. Airline pilots use HF frequencies from 2800 kHz to 22 MHz as their primary means of communication with shore stations during oceanic flights. These comms...
California Relief Squadron Flies Aid to Wildfire-Scarred Oregon
A flying armada organized by volunteer pilots flying private aircraft today delivered 100,000 KN95 respirators from Direct Relief’s California-based humanitarian distribution center to residents and firefighters in Oregon’s...
Make: Magazine – ‘Making It In Cuba’ Documentary to Highlight The Nation’s Ubiquitous Maker Culture
Make: Magazine 1/2/2020: ‘Making It In Cuba’ Documentary to Highlight The Nation’s Ubiquitous Maker Culture Make: Magazine published a piece by Levi C. Maaia on the launch of the “Making It in Cuba” documentary film campaign.
Amateur Radio Newsline – Making It in Cuba
Amateur Radio Newsline™ 12/27/2019: Report 2200 Amateur Radio Newsline covered the launch of the "Making It in Cuba" documentary film campaign.
Santa Barbara Library contacts the ISS
On July 3, 2019, with the help of the Santa Barbara Amatuer Radio Club, children at the Santa Barbara Public Library contacted Astronaut Nick Hague on the International Space Station as part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program. Santa...
Technology & Innovation – Inventing with Maker Education In High School Classrooms
A paper published in the journal of the National Academy of Inventors on Maaia’s interactional ethnographic study of Maker-based STEM initiative published in a special edition on invention education.
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Keys to Maker Education
by Levi C. Maaia
This study examined how and in what ways an instructor and students defined and influenced the co-creation of a maker-based STEM culture at an independent high school.
Providence Business News – Former Full Channel execs launch telecommunications consultancy
Providence Business News 1/24/2018: Former Full Channel execs launch telecommunications consultancy Providence Business News published a story on our launch of Maaia Communications.