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Please note this event has been cancelled due to low partiicipation.  We will re-schedule.  

Vocational Opportunity to support Hawaii Workforce Pipeline, Inc. a non-profit doing their part in supporting our local students pursue higher education and achieve their professional career goals by participating in the in-person Mock interviews at Mckinley High School on March 2nd & 3rd.

Ian Kitajima serves as Teachnology Sherpa for Oceanit (https://www.oceanit.com).

Bio: Mr. Ian Kitajima is the "Technology Sherpa" for Oceanit – a "Mind to Market" lab of 160 scientists, engineers, technologists, designers, and dreamers conducting advance research for government and private clients. He is the co-founder of the 2010 Design Thinking movement, Altino CS to expose teachers to CS started in 2017, and Aloha AI to expose teachers to Artificial Intelligence started in 2019.  As Oceanit's Tech Sherpa, his role is to move breakthroughs from the lab to the marketplace, as well as education.  

DELIVERING THE FUTURE

UPDATED TIME:  Our shift is 10am-11am

WHAT:  Please join us for Part 1 Genki Ball Making.  We will be making the Genki Balls to be released into the Ala Wai Canal.  Sunrisers will be partnering with the Kakaako Eco Reotary Club in their service project to support the ambitious plan to bioremediate the Ala Wai Canal.  The aim is by introducing these good bacterias that the Ala Wai Canal will be fishable and swimmable in the next 7 years!

WHO:  You and your families / friends - please RSVP

WHERE:Kapahulu Library (outside on the grass lawn) Parking available at the library lot

WHEN:  10 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Directions:  Please bring your own water bottles, hats, etc.

What:  Volunteers will be helping with site maintenance of the park, activities such as restoring walking paths, watering, clearing brush.

Please bring water bottles, sunscreen / hats, covered shoes.

About the Park:  https://kalaeloaheritagepark.org/

The Kalaeloa Heritage Park site is a relatively undisturbed, 11-acre parcel with over 50 recorded cultural sites that consist of ancient habitation structures, sinkholes, and the Kualaka’i trail.

These cultural structures are unique and cannot be found anywhere else in Hawai’i. They are constructed of coral and hint at a Tahitian origin due to the integration of upright stones in their construction.

The topography of the area offers important context.  Stretching along the coast from Pearl Harbor to Wai‘anae, the entire ‘Ewa Plain is an emerged coral reef. The land is uneven, tufted and full of crevices, sinkholes, and underground caves — also known as karsts — that carried fresh water and were used as agricultural and sacred sites for early inhabitants.

The vastness of this cultural landscape paints a picture of a community of people that lived and thrived here. It is not a documentation of individual archaeological features but rather a landscape, an ancient community that once lived at a place once known as Kanehili.

"HawaiiKidsCAN: increasing educational opportunities for kids through an effective local model of community innovation and policy change."
 

David Sun-Miyashiro is the Founding Director of HawaiiKidsCAN (https://hawaiikidscan.org)

David Sun-Miyashiro is the founding executive director of HawaiiKidsCAN, a non-profit organization that partners with families and community members to promote education innovation and equity in Hawaii. Highlights in this role have included passing legislation to increase access to computer science education and career readiness programs, creating the We Are Voices of Excellence youth advocacy program, and launching innovations such as Wifi on Wheels, Lanai Ohana Pods, Spark & Inspire, Wahine Processing Power, and the Hawaii Education Innovation Showcase.
David is a proud fourth-generation Hawaii resident. He is experienced in the education, non- profit, government, and political sectors, including as a local public school special education teacher through Teach For America-Hawaii, press secretary for U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono, communications director for the Ann Callis for Congress campaign, and manager of external affairs and executive director support with Teach For America-Hawaii.
David’s board service has included the Treasurer of the Kailua Neighborhood Board, Common Cause Hawaii, Vice Chair of the Hawaii ACT Council, James Campbell High School’s Academy of Public and Human Services, Hawaii Workforce Development Council’s Youth Service Committee, The Computer Science Teachers Association Hawaii Chapter leadership team, and the Friends of Hawaii Technology Academy, as well as numerous Hawaii State Department of Education stakeholder groups. He is an alumnus of the Weinberg Fellows program and PIE Network Leadership Institute. Recognitions include being recognized as one of the 2022 “20 for the Next 20” by Hawaii Business Magazine, the 2018 and 2021 CAN-Do Awards from the 50CAN Network, and finalist for the 2021 Champions for Children Award from the Hawaii Children’s Action Network.
David holds a bachelors degree from Brandeis University and masters degrees from the University of Hawaii and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The parking is the spillover parking area at Best Buy.  We will meet there at 8:00AM for sign in and instructions.  Please bring a hat, sunscreen, your favorite garden glove if you have one.  Supplies will be provided if needed—gloves, tongs to pick up trash, sun screen and bug repellant, hand sanitizers and trash bags.  I will also have water to refill therma flasks if you bring one.

 

We will be picking up trash 10 feet from each side of the bike path, and taking them out in bags back to the Best Buy area.  Masks are voluntary, and it will be a great community project and we will have fun socializing and meeting other clubs and keeping Hawaii beautiful!  The project is “Huki Pau” which means we can go home when the work is done and I think we’ll be done at least by 11:00.

 

Contact Allen Kamemoto at 808-224-1618 if you have any issues or concerns.

https://www.jefffuchs.com

Jeff Fuchs’ journey has been mapped by a long winding loop. His human interest stories and photos have appeared on three continents in publications such as National Geographic Traveler, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Conde Nast, Financial Times and the South China Morning Post amongst others. His work and life were the inspiration for the award-winning documentary, ‘The Tea Explorer’. For a decade he lived in ‘Shangrila’ at 3200 metres, in northwestern Yunnan Province, and became the first documented westerner to walk the entire length of the Himalayan trade route, a journey taking 7.5 months and was the subject of ‘The Ancient Tea Horse Road’ book, published by Penguin-Viking.

It was his journeys and living in the Himalayas that embedded the twin essentials of a sense of ‘place’ and curiosity. This transferred into taking school groups (amongst others) into the Himalayas and providing tangible and engaging experiences immersing in the spaces, in the cultures and by extension into the self. National Geographic Traveler magazine named his guided journey along the Tea Horse Road with Wild China, one of their “50 Trips of a Lifetime”, which still runs annually and is all about experiential travel and engagement.

In 2013, Jeff was invited to Hawaii’s East-West Center as a Scholar-in-Residence to mentor, speak, and listen. He has remained, though he travels much of every year.

Jeff was voted one of Canada’s 100 Greatest explorers by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society based upon working with locals to get stories told. To that end, Jeff has spoken all over the world to organizations and student bodies alike to encourage more time outside, being curious, and connecting. Much of the focus of his talks is on how the worlds of exploration and expeditions are inextricably linked to that of growing up: it is about finding out and finding a way. In 2017, he was part of an initiative along with the Royal Geographic Society to speak to inner city schools in Hong Kong to help promote students getting and engaging with the outdoors, wherever and whenever possible.

In his words, “It shouldn’t be youth that we blame for not engaging or feeling disconnected. It is us the guides that should endeavor to encourage them not ‘what to see’, but ‘how to look’ and offer up options.”

Jeff is the Director of Programming at the Akahiao Nature Institute on Hawaii’s Big Island, where the focus is on immersing youth in the outdoors and encouraging them to innovate new models of living their present and future.

Hawaii Pacific Health

Kahauiki Village has a newly built Youth Center that will serve as a welcoming, fun, and safe place for the keiki to play, learn and hang out.  The official blessing is occuring later in May and they have asked for some assistance with some final touches.  Come help with some tree planting, landscaping, and exterior furniture assembly.  Light refreshments will also be provided.  

Alana works for Family Programs and unites siblings for family visits