May Issue by Trojan Times

MILILANI HIGH SCHOOL . ISSUE 3 . MAY, 2021

Celebrating the Class of 2021 After a school year with COVID-19, graduation is approaching. With many challenges this year, and the changes in learning and teaching, the end is finally near. Seniors are looking forward to graduating at Aloha Ceremony on May 16, 2021.

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A Letter From

The Editor

When I envisioned my senior year, it certainly wasn’t anything like this. I think everyone can agree that this year has been filled with unexpected bumps and turns in response to a worldwide pandemic. I never thought that my senior year would take place mostly online and away from my peers, but still, I have been blessed with so much. The pandemic has made it very easy to focus on the negatives of what we have been losing instead of the positives of what we have been gaining. I was supposed to move to Washington D.C. in the summer of 2020, but when COVID-19 hit, my dad’s military orders changed, and I was able to stay here in Hawai’i for another year. If I had moved, I would not have had the opportunity of being Mililani Times for another year, nor would I have been able to lead an amazing team of staffers as their Editor-in-Chief (EIC). While we haven’t been able to function at our normal pace, I am extremely proud of everyone on staff this year for what we have been able to accomplish. For instance, we have been able to post more online stories and gain more interaction with our social media pages. Trying to create a newspaper while being completely virtual was challenging, and yet, our staff was able to persevere and place third in the annual Hawai’i High School Journalism Awards. I wouldn’t be here today without an amazing staff and supportive advisor. Mr. Sato has been pushing me to be my best since my sophomore year, and for that, I am forever grateful. I’d also like to thank last year’s EIC, Chloe Kitsu, as well as everyone on staff my rookie year for teaching me both the importance of hard work and what it means to be a dedicated member of a team. They pushed me to grow and showed me how to lead. This year has taught me that even when circumstances are challenging, we can overcome any obstacles that come our way and accomplish great things. Thank you Mililani Times, for entrusting me to be your leader this year. You will always be my family.

Table of Contents 1.

Music Department’s End of Year Spring Concert Moves Online 03

2. Top Songs of the School Year

3. MHS Librarian Betty Arai Wins 2021 Golden Key Award

4. MHS Prepares for In-Person Graduation at Aloha Stadium 5. Senior Functions Held on Campus

Christopher Sato Adviser Editor in Chief Director of Arts Emily Zimmerman Rain Hashimoto Copy Editor Head Photographer Ellie Kim Faustine Miura Online Editor Social Media Editor Emma Lee Jenna Kim Video Editor Photo Stylist Eden Chun Samantha Yuda Director of Sales Distribution Manager Kasandra Morse Lyndsey Hagihara Opinions Editor Sports Editor Macallister Graves Rhea Wojack Anime Editor Blogs Editor Brynn Vincent Willow Otaka Games Editor Mikal Reese Mia Murasaki Ken Sakata Clare Sullivan Johnathan Escasa Samuel Sameshima Isabella Makino Akira Pescador

Music Editor Lana Patlingrao Staff Kanako Yonashiro Anya Hubbard Rhys Lavatai Drake Mullikin Shaylee Oshiro Alexander Ozawa

NEWS

Music Department’s End of Year Concert Moves Online

WRITER Macallister Graves

DESIGNER Jenna Kim

ue to the safety guidelines of the pandemic, the Mililani High School Music Department decided to have the end of the year concert online. The participating groups will be the Concert Band, Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Chorus, String Ensemble and Wind Ensemble. Normally, these classes would practice music throughout the quarter, having up to three concerts per school year. This concert was continued as the year-end tradition of a Spring Concert could not be in-person due to the pandemic. “The hardest part was not being able to play songs with my peers. This was the main difference compared to in-person and online school. Playing with others can help you to know where you are at in the song and is more enjoyable,” Sophomore Kaiya Endo said. Students had to learn songs using different music websites, such as SmartMusic and Flipgrid. SmartMusic is a website allowing one to see, record, and submit music. Flipgrid allows students to record videos and send them to a teacher. Although SmartMusic allows one to hear the accompaniment, the experience of playing with other students is hard to replicate through an online source. Students were able to practice during class time and had to record their parts separately, sending it to the teacher through Google Classroom. To stay in sync with other students and the music, students had to be listening to the accompaniment part while recording. “The most challenging part was to have all the students submitting individual video recordings of themselves in a timely manner to meet our deadlines,” Concert Band and Concert Orchestra Teacher Bryan Hirata said. The teachers also had to find a way to organize and combine the video clips students sent. They got the help of Music Teacher and Violinist Duane Padilla and worked through gathering every student’s parts. Regardless of these challenges, Hirata said the ability to show the results of effort throughout the school year made it enjoyable. “It was difficult adjusting to the online assignments that our teacher assigned us. During in-person school, this would not be a problem because he (the teacher) would just be rehearsing with us as a group. However, online he can see the different things that we are struggling with which would affect our grades,” Endo said. The transition to online school has been a major difference to the music classes, as all forms of listening have been moved to different platforms. The new change focused on the individual work and practice more than working together as a group. Sight-reading has become more introduced throughout the online period, and there has been more of an emphasis on scales and rhythm exercises. “Congratulations to all the students who persevered in all of their classes and overcame many obstacles throughout this school year. The music teachers are proud of all that they have accomplished despite these unprecedented circumstances,” Hirata said. The concert will premiere on the Mililani High School YouTube channel Mililani High TV within the week of May 10 to the 17. For more information about the concert or music classes, see room K102 where the band and orchestra are taught or contact Bryan Hirata at bryan.hirata@mililanihs.k12.hi.us.

Top Songs of the School Year

WRITER Lana Patlingrao

usic is an important part of almost everyone’s lives, especially students studying during the school year. Completing school work can be a tedious task, but when listening to music, students can become energized and motivated to complete their work. As the summer is nearing, here is a compilation of the top five songs from the 2020-2021 school year.

“POV” by Ariana Grande

From young actress to pop singer, Ariana Grande has released many top chart songs such as “Thank U, Next”, “Into You”, and “God Is a Woman”. The Positions album was released in October of 2020 with 14 songs in total, including “POV”. The song peaked at #22 on Billboard Global 200. With the lyrics, “I’d love to see me from your point of view,” Grande points out how people may be wary of how others view them.

“Watermelon sugar” by Harry styles

After the break-up of One Direction, Harry Styles moved onto a solo career in 2017 with his first album Harry Styles. One of his most recent songs was “Watermelon Sugar”, which was released in 2019. The summer themed song won a Grammy award for Best Pop Solo Performance by Harry Styles in the year 2021.

“Dynamite” by bts

BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys or Bangtan Sonyeondan, is a popular seven-member South Korean boy band. The group first debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment and released their first song “No More Dream”. Their song “Dynamite” is an upbeat pop song that was released in 2020 and received various awards, including the Kid’s Choice Award for Favorite Song.

“heather” by conan gray

Conan Gray first became known in the music industry in 2013, but his debut album, Kid Krow, with Republic Records was released in March 2020. One of his top songs from the album was “Heather”, which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Global 200. This became a popular song as the lyrics tell a story of one’s crush liking someone else, making it relatable to many who may have had a similar experience.

“Driver’s license” by olivia rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo, actress and singer-songwriter, is well known for her acting role as Nina SalazarRoberts on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series but also for her new single song “Driver’s License”. Her song reached number one on multiple music charts, such as Apple Music’s Top 100: Global and Spotify’s Top 50: Global. She reached over 10 million streams with her breakup song that reached out to her listeners on a personal level.

NEWS

MHS Librarian Betty Arai Wins 2021 Golden Key Award WRITER Emma Lee

PHOTOGRAPHER Johnathan Escasa

DESIGNER Ken Sakata

fter over 20 years of being a librarian at Mililani High School, Betty Arai has earned the 2021 Golden Key Award from the Hawai’i Association of School Librarians (HASL). The award recognizes a public or private school librarian who made significant professional contributions to the profession in Hawai'i and given notable service to HASL. Arai was nominated by her librarian peers by February 19, 2021 and then chosen from all the nominees by a selection committee. “I want to say that Betty is one of the most humble, most hard-working, self-sacrificing people. Without her, I would not have been myself a librarian. She was like my role model and somebody that I look up to, and I just feel like this award is so well deserved,” said Honouliuli Middle School librarian Caroline Lee who, with MHS librarian Rieko Goo, nominated Arai for the Golden Key Award earlier this year. As part of the support staff at MHS, Arai had to take up new responsibilities this year when MHS and the school library were shut down due to COVID-19. This included monitoring the students who opted for 100 percent online learning, a task that involved sending weekly progress reports, communicating with students and their parents, and answering their questions. “So that in itself is like a full-time job, but that just goes to show that we're here to support the whole school, you know — whatever the need is. And this is the emergency situation so, you know, I told Mr. Murphy (MHS principal), ‘Yeah, whatever you need me to do, you know we’re here to help and support.’ And that’s part of being a librarian,” said Arai. The Golden Key Award recognizes the efforts of a school librarian over the course of their entire career and not for only the year it is awarded. In previous years, Arai has helped the history department with National History Day, an annual competition where students create a project based on a historical topic, and the science department with their research projects. Lee, who was an MHS history teacher from around 2010 to 2016, received help from Arai in assisting students with their National History Day projects, such as how to do citations, find obscure primary sources, use Google’s Advanced Search, and utilize library resources. “She was like an integral part of me teaching students how to conduct their projects well and experience projects in a way where they can be effective researchers,” said Lee. Prior to COVID-19, Arai also did numerous programs and activities for the MHS library, including Teen Read contests, Banned Books celebrations, and Booktalks to promote literacy and the love of literature. In order to ensure equity of learning opportunities for all students, she also organized activities for students in special education, including one event where an art gallery was posted for them to say which pieces they liked and why. “We just wanted them to learn art appreciation and the read aloud was about art, etc. So we have been trying to do activities like that,” said Arai. For more information on the Golden Key Award and HASL, visit https://haslhawaii.weebly.com/awards.html.

MHS librarian Berry Arai has served 6 years as either a Committee Chairperson or on the Board of the Hawaii Association of School Librarians.

Mrs. Arai (left) with HASL Co-President Danielle Fujii (right). Photo courtesty of the HASL.

NEWS

MHS Prepares for In-Person Graduation at Aloha Stadium WRITER Kanako Yonashiro

DESIGNER Rain Hashimoto, Willow Otaka

s the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to hold a traditional graduation at the Aloha Stadium for the Mililani High School class of 2020, students and parents from the class of 2021 have long-awaited the decision on how graduation would be planned this year. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, the MHS Graduation Committee planned a traditional graduation at Aloha Stadium on May 16, 2021. The graduation ceremony will last for two hours, and both parents and graduates will be seated at the stadium by 6 p.m. “I think my favorite part (of being the 2021 class advisor) would be the relationships with the students and the faculty members. Being thrust into a position like this, seeing everyone around you grow, and at the very end realizing that I myself have grown as well,” said 2021 class advisor Sean Wagner. Because the Graduation Committee had to frequently adjust their plans to follow COVID-19 protocols, they hoped to make this celebration especially memorable for the seniors by allowing graduates to choose two guardians to accompany them at the ceremony. Specifically, guardians will be seated next to their child in groups of three. These groups will also be six feet apart on the field in order to abide by the social distancing protocol. Unlike previous graduations, guardians will also be able to go with their child when they get called up on stage to receive their diploma. “The consensus for the parents is that they are happy. A lot of them love the idea because in a traditional graduation, the parents would be way up in the stand, and their kid would look like a little dot going onstage. So, in this one, this is the first graduation where they will be right next to their kids,” said Wagner. In past years, the ceremony would typically have around 6,000 spectators and guests in the stands. It would then end with a lei reception in the Aloha Stadium parking lot where over 10,000 people would come and give out leis to the graduates. However, in accordance with the guidelines provided by the superintendent of the Hawaii Department of Education, Christina Kishimoto, which requires there to be a limited number of guests at the stadium, there will be no lei reception, and guests are prohibited from being in the stands. There is also no planned alternative for it provided by the school, but similar to last year, some students are planning on having personal lei receptions at their homes. The Graduation Committee also made provisions for other family members and friends apart from the two guardians to watch the ceremony. Each graduate will be allowed to bring two cars: a “gold” car, and a “brown” car, which is identified by either having a “gold” or “brown” ticket. The gold car will have the graduate and two guardians, and the brown car can have up to four other guests. While those in the gold car will be in the stadium, guests in the brown car will be in the parking lot watching the ceremony on a big screen.

“So, in this one, this is the first graduation where they (the parents) will be right next to their kids.” Sean Wagner

“I am actually really surprised in how they planned it because I really didn’t want to have a graduation at the school (like) last year. Even though Mr. Murphy did an amazing job, but Aloha stadium is what you look forward to going to when you enter high school and when you graduate, so I am really satisfied with how they did this,” said Senior Cadie Young. While the Graduation Committee experienced the challenge of planning a graduation in a short period of time last year, this year they faced a similar difficulty of having to wait for the approval of every decision that was made. Decisions had to be approved by the superintendent to ensure that their plans followed specific protocols. “I think that’s a challenge because you know, a lot of parents and students want to know right ahead what is going to take place and we don’t really have those answers firm yet,” said Graduation Committee Advisor Stephanie Grande-Misaki. Regardless of the difficulties that the Graduation Committee faced, GrandeMisaki is grateful to have worked with the Graduation Committee Chairperson, Senior Ardyn Hamane. Although the Chairperson has several responsibilities, their main role is to facilitate the committee meetings. “She’s been so flexible and organized as well, so I think she’s really been a really calm and positive force I guess in the Graduation Committee. So she helps to keep students on task in the Committee, and she’s always asking questions and she’s willing to do anything, so I think that’s really worked well so with her leadership,” said Grande-Misaki. For those who have questions regarding the 2021 graduation, email Grande-Misaki at sgrande-misaki@mililanihs.k12.hi.us. Registration forms for Project Graduation 2021, a post-graduation event, will be available in the office starting April 19 and is limited to 100 students. Seniors that are interested in participating can visit http://mililaniprojectgrad.com/ for more information.

Senior Functions Held on Campus

The Senior Prom Committee includes Casey Morishige, Haley Ihu, Toby Watanabe, Kammi Miyashita, Bethany Ballesteros, Chasity Bae, and Tristen Fuijmoto, with Mr. Wagner as the advisor.

Photo courtesy of the Senior Prom Committee A group of seniors gather for Senior Function: Charge Large on MHS campus.

n place of events like senior luau and prom, the senior prom committee of Mililani High School hosted small group gatherings on campus where they hung out, played games, and did giveaways. These events, called Senior Function: Charge Large, took place every Friday and Saturday from April 17 to May 1. There are two sessions in the evenings for only seniors to attend. One was from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and the second was from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. “Watching our chairperson and the committee, seeing how everyone enjoyed themselves the first night, that was really nice to see,” said Class of 2021 advisor Sean Wagner. “Everyone out there having fun, they weren’t restricted by last name, so it wasn’t only the T’s on this night. They were able to see their classmates from any different letter grouping. And I think those smiles, it was really nice to see for the chairperson, and it was really nice to see for myself as well.” The gatherings were held on the New Lanai at MHS, which was decorated with fairy lights for the occasion. While there, the seniors could participate in games and giveaways. However, due to social distancing guidelines, only twenty people per session were allowed to come.

“Honestly, it was kind of hard trying to decide what we were gonna do, since we couldn’t really do much out of this whole COVID situation,” said Senior Prom Committee Chairperson Senior Kammi Miyashita. “Like planning what we were gonna do with the time or how much people could come, if we could invite other guests, like non-seniors. All that kind of stuff.” The gatherings were planned to be thirty minutes apart to allow for time to sanitize and clean up the area. These functions had to specifically be on campus as well, since field trips were not approved. Group singing and dancing were also not allowed. “I would say it’s pretty different, but I’m glad that we could have it,” said Miyashita. “With COVID, and having seniors getting to have a semi-like prom out of this.” Despite these difficulties and guidelines, seniors still signed up for the functions. The committee will now be focusing on graduation plans with more details to come.

Photo courtesy of the Senior Prom Committee Mark Budiao, Makoa DeAlmeida, and Jimwell Delos Reyes play a game of giant Jenga.

Photo courtesy of the Senior Prom Committee Casey Morishige, Kammi Miyashita, Lyndsey Hagihara, and Tristen Fujimoto attended on April 23 during the first session.

Photo courtesy of the Senior Prom Committee Lori Takushi, Natalie Gamboa, and Chloe Boncato catch up with one another.

NEWS

The Silent Hero: A Eulogy for a Fallen WWII Veteran WRITER Emily Zimmerman

ililani High School Junior Armaan Needles and World History Teacher Charlie Buenafe have been selected to participate in the Second Annual Sacrifice for Freedom: World War II in the Pacific Student & Teacher Institute. Needles and Buenafe are one of 16 teams across the country to be participating in the program taking place in Honolulu. “I was overjoyed at being selected to be one of 16 students in the country, and I felt proud to be the only one from Hawai’i in the program,” said Needles. The program pairs up students and teachers to research a “Silent Hero”, a veteran who died during World War II and is buried or memorialized at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Needles’ Silent Hero is Seaman Second Class Ernest Sur. “I am excited for the actual trip and I look forward to meeting the other participants. It is a

real honor to be able to deliver my eulogy at the grave of Ernest Sur and it will truly be a trip to remember for me,” said Needles. Needles and Buenafe have been meeting over Zoom to research and create a eulogy, a speech honoring someone who has passed, for their fallen soldier. Needles will give his eulogy for Sur on the last day of the program. “Armaan has excelled in his historical research skills. Programs like these require a student to select and name from a list and reconstruct the person’s life using primary source materials. These investigative skills are important not just for Social Studies classes but all classes. Armaan shows a great ability to uncover sources and analyze them,” said Buenafe. The teams were selected last year in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program has been pushed back a year. The event will now take place during June 24-28, 2021.

Courtesy Of Amy Boehning

DESIGNER Clare Sullivan

Needles’ biggest take away from the program so far has been learning about the amount of soldiers missing in action during WWII, including the soldier he researched: Ernest Sur.

MHS Students Place in the 2021 Hawai’i History Day Competition WRITER Kanako Yonashiro

he national qualifiers for the Hawai’i History Day 2021 State Competition were announced on April 24 by the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities. 11 projects from Mililani High School (MHS) qualified for the national competition, and 6 received community awards. This was the highest number of MHS student projects to go to nationals in one year, and out of the two scholarships that were offered, MHS had projects that were awarded both. “I am just so excited for them because you know this year is so hard. We needed things to happen for our students, and that’s why I give my teachers so much credit because when so many teachers across the country not just the state, but across the country opted not to do any extra program and just focus on teaching basic content,” said MHS social studies teacher and National History Day coordinator Amy Boehning. NHD is a program that has students engage in historical research and writing on a topic of interest for a competition. Students participating in the program have the opportunity to submit their projects

at local and affiliate levels. Students that advance these levels are then able to compete in the highest level: the national competition. “My project received 2nd place in the Senior Division for Research Papers at states,” said Junior Kyle Walker. “I was incredibly surprised with my placement, as I tend to talk myself down and lower my expectations as a way of mitigating disappointment.” While some students felt that the competitive aspect of NHD is what makes it worth participating in, teachers such as Boehning believed that it is valuable for the skills it helped students develop. She also emphasized that the skills that they developed can be applied across disciplines such as English and science. “It is far and beyond just learning from a textbook, and that’s why I think if you teach a student, they don’t have a chance to learn all of those skills. So it’s not about if everyone should do History Day — I think everybody should learn those historical inquiry thinking skills for life,” said Boehning. In the paper category, Junior Annabelle Ink won first place, and Junior Kyle Walker won second place.

DESIGNER Clare Sullivan

In the group website category, Junior Breanne Acoba and Junior Brielle Acoba won first place, and Junior Erin Hikiji and Emmeline Ink won second place. In the individual website category, Sophomore Ty Wakahiro won first place. In the individual documentary category, Junior Mandy Kim-Fu won second place. In the group documentary category, Senior Willow Otaka and Senior Kiana Burnette won third place. In the individual performance category, Junior Yasmine Mustafa won first place, Junior Veronica Guiney won second place, and Armaan Needles won third place. In the group performance category, Freshman Quincy Coullahan and Freshman Jasmine Smith won first place, Sophomore Samantha Ito and Sophomore Kyle Corley won second place, and Junior Krystal Luna and Junior Alyssa Lamarca won third place. For more information, visit https://hihumanities. org/what-we-do/hi-history-day/.

NEWS

MHS Triumphs in CTSO Conferences Skills USA

WRITER Akira Pescador

s the end of studenthood approaches, some may find themselves feeling ill-equipped for the responsibilities that a full-time job may bring, lacking the proper skills to deal with specific job-related situations. In order to prepare high school students for their future careers, the SkillsUSA organization holds annual competitions to test competitors’ general ability, subject knowledge, and adaptability. From February 9 to 26, 2021, several Mililani High School students virtually competed in the state-wide SkillsUSA competition, with gold-medalists Junior Ethan Ibanez, Sophomore Zachary Boston, Senior Mark Budiao, Senior Elizabeth Johnson, and Senior Kobelyn Guerrero moving on to nationals in June 2021. “It’s a national organization. It was originally made to create a workforce for America. People that are interested in a certain field can be trained in that skill, and it sets them up for their future if they aren’t able to attend college,” said Senior Elizabeth Johnson. At the SkillsUSA conference, there were numerous subject-specific areas for students to compete in, with the amount differing in each state. As for MHS students, Boston, Budiao, Senior Jade Engstrom, and Junior Korie Takamoto placed highly in mobile robotics; Johnson and Guerrero won in television production; and Ibanez and Junior Micah Nishihira were at the top of internetworking. “For television production, it’s basically us editing and filming a video in 6 hours. They give us the prompt the day of, and then the timer starts, and we must produce a one minute long video. They call it television production because you have to do everything that goes into producing a show or movie on television: the storyboarding, filming, acting, and editing were all incorporated into it,” Johnson said. On the day of the competition, participants were instructed to complete certain tasks to the best of their ability with no prior knowledge of specific details. Thus, what would normally be a school project to be completed within the week was completed within the span of a few hours. Unlike the television production competition, internetworking was divided into three parts. Nishihira and Ibanez had to demonstrate their knowledge through a written test, complete a packet tracer, and handle a simulated technical assistance center call with a judge. “You get to learn the foundations of a strong career in the future while competing with people learning the same things as you. It gave me the chance to learn something I never really knew anything about before competing, and let me test out what I was learning in class,” said silver-medalist Junior Micah Nishihira. Aside from career-related factors, another inspiration for students to participate in SkillsUSA was their mentors, who had encouraged them to test their abilities and prove their expertise. “From skills, I know that regardless of my future profession, I have proficiency in networking and my victory was able to show that,” Junior Ethan Ibanez said. For those interested in the SkillsUSA competition, contact the SkillsUSA Hawaii state director at evangeline.casinas@k12.hi.us or visit the organization’s website on https://www.skillsusa.org/.

FCCLA

WRITER Emma Lee

DESIGNER Jenna Kim

amily, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) supports students in a Family and Consumer Sciences education, and it is one of the many national Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO) that competed in a virtual competition this year. From Mililani High School, Junior Kasandra Morse won the Gold Medal in the STAR Event (Students Taking Action with Recognition) for Entrepreneurship and, by doing so, the chance to compete nationally at FCCLA’s 2021 National Leadership Conference from June 27 to July 2, 2021. In the STAR Event for Baking and Pastry, Senior Joshua Ishizaka won the Silver Medal, and Seniors Maria Bongiorno and Zain Sasaki both won a Bronze Medal. “I think it was exciting because I didn’t know anything about business when I first started doing this,” said Morse, who competed in FCCLA for the first time this year. STAR events support students’ leadership skills, career preparation, and proficiency in an issue that affects family, careers, and communities. For the STAR event in Entrepreneurship, Morse created a small business plan through Google Slides and a video, which acted as her portfolio and presentation, to submit to the competition. Morse’s small business plan included two parts: one side was making video edits, such as for anime or television shows, and the other side was to make commercials for businesses. All profits would be donated to charities and COVID-19 relief funds. “So I was thinking about creating a small business, which I could use that to help people who have been affected like COVID-19 and all the hate crimes going around in the world,” said Morse. For more information on FCCLA’s 2021 National Leadership Conference this summer, visit https://fcclainc.org/attend/national-leadership-conference.

HOSA & FFA Winners HOSA Pharmacology 3rd Place - Senior Kara Saruwatari Community Awareness 1st Place - Junior Paige Fujiwara and Junior Jazlyne Nitta 2nd Place - Junior Kevi Anzai and Junior Karl Estabillo Forensic Science 2nd Place - Senior Vella Deguzman and Senior Cadie Young

FFA Extemporaneous Speaking 3rd Place - Junior Randyn Rios