A 10-student team, from Newport High School in Bellevue, placed second at the International Rocketry Challenge held at the Farnborough International Airshow outside London on July 22.

XBOT Robotics founder and Executive Director Donna Yip-Lew received the Distinguished Service plaque while welcoming new Executive Director Naomi Takeuchi with board member Tom Blank and Board President Doug Landry at a reception in her honor at Seattle’s Kubota Garden on July 23.

The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) announced on July 26 that Virginia Lucy will be its new communications director.

Tomio and Jenny Moriguchi celebrated the North American Post’s 120th anniversary and Soy Source’s 30th anniversary on July 21.