YOUTH & EDUCATION Community Contributed
Bright Ideas for Saving Energy
The Molokai DispaTch • Mar 18, 2015 •
Boys’ Tennis Earns First Team Victory By Rick Schonely | Community Reporter
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he Molokai boys’ and girls’ tennis teams hit the road this past weekend with matches Friday at Maui Prepatory Academy in Kapalua and Saturday at Maui High in Kahului. On Friday at Kapalua the boys won 4-1, and the girls lost 3-1. Shiloh Kawaahau and Preston Pascua won in singles and Kaiea Dowling and Decker Bicoy won in first doubles. Michelle McGuire and Althea Cariaga won second doubles for the girls. Saturday’s matches were both won by the Sabers. The Molokai boys lost 3-2 and the girls lost 4-1. Preston Pascua won third singles, while Luke Kikukawa and Noeau Likua won second doubles. “We almost won the boys’ match,”
By Maya Lima and Gaby Miguel, Kilohana sixth graders Did you know that you can save a lot of energy and money by simply flicking off a light? On Feb. 18, Kilohana School held an Energy Expo for their school community. At the expo, Kilohana’s fifth and sixth graders gave presentations on how to save energy and money at home. Parents and students walked from station to station to learn about energy conservation. One of the student presenters, Gabrielle Miguel told audience members, “One cool way to save energy is to wash your clothes with cold water and buy Energy Star appliances.” According to Miguel, washing clothes in cold water can save a family more than $63 a year. At another station called Energy Efficient Homes, Reese Tollefsen shared more amazing ways to save energy. “You can put radiant barriers in your attic. A radiant barrier is like a mir-
ror to heat,” Tollefsen said. Tollefsen went on to point out how radiant barriers can lower the temperature in a home by 9 degrees. All participants in the evening’s activities were entered into a drawing for awesome energy efficient prizes like LED light bulbs, a hand cranked radio, solar cell phone chargers, and even a solar camp shower. The evening was a great success partly due to the generous support of two sponsors, Hawaii Energy and the National Energy Education Development Project. At the end of the evening, Maya Lima, a sixth grader, summed up her classmates’ efforts. “Everybody that showed up for Kilohana’s Energy Expo was a winner because they learned a lot of interesting ways to save energy to help keep our planet green and clean,” she said.
Hawaiian Immersion Summer School Fun Kula Kaiapuni Kauwela News Release Celebrating the fourth year of Kula Kaiapuni Kauwela on Molokai, the program will once again be held this summer at Kualapu`u Public Charter School for students entering grades K-9 in the fall. Teachers have been selected: Nahulu Maioho -- grades six to eight, Kailana RitteCamara -- grades four and five, Lokelani Han -- grades two and three, and Uluhani Waialeale -- grades Kindergarten and first grade. Manuwai Peters will be the site coordinator. The dates for the 20-day program will be from June 9 through July 7 daily from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Hawaiian language based curricula is designed to engage and excite students in land and ocean activities that emphasize the caring of Molokai resources. Molokai provides a living laboratory of learning and the program strives to get learners out of the classroom and onto
the `aina to take advantage of the unique opportunities that cannot always be conducted during the regular school year. Registration forms are available at the Molokai Middle School and Kualapu`u Public Charter School offices. The tuition for the 4-week program is $190. A limited number of Alu Like, Inc. tuition vouchers are available for qualifying students. Vouchers forms will be available with registration forms. Voucher requests need to be submitted directly to Alu Like, Inc., in Honolulu. Kula Kaiapuni Kauwela is for all students, regardless of their Hawaiian language abilities. Students who enroll should be motivated to learn and use Hawaiian language. The program is offered by the Department of Education with support from The Kamehameha Schools. For more information, please contact site coordinator Manuwai Peters at mpeters@hawaiidoe.k12.hi.us.
Hawaii Agricultural Scholarship Monsanto Hawaii News Release The Hawaii Agricultural Scholarship was established in 2011 to encourage students statewide interested in a career in agriculture. Applicants must be have been accepted, or are currently enrolled, as a fulltime student at an accredited college or university other than the University of Hawaii at Manoa or Oregon State University, and pursuing a degree in an agricultural science program or related discipline (such as botany, genetics, horticulture, plant physiology, crop science or soil science). The deadline for applications is May 1. Past Life Sciences Scholarship recipients from Molokai are: Xrystina Bicoy (2014), Lesley Escobar (2013), Moriah Jenkins (2012), Chelsea Sakamoto (2011), Rebecca Carpenter (2010), Manley Colton (2009), Kelsy Takashima (2008), and Kimberly Mokuau (2007). Applications for the Monsanto Hawaii Life Sciences Scholarship and Monsanto Hawaii Agricultural Scholarship can be downloaded online at MonsantoHawaii.com or call 808-685-8664. Students pursuing a degree in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR) may apply for
a separate Monsanto Scholarship. Email Dr. Charles Kinoshita at KinoshitaC@CTAHR. hawaii.edu for further information. Oregon State University students pursuing a degree in Agricultural Sciences or a science area may apply for a separate Monsanto Scholarship. Email Paul Dorres at Paul.Dorres@oregonstate.edu for more information and an application. Monsanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solutions to help nourish our growing world. We produce seeds for fruits, vegetables and key crops that help farmers have better harvests while using water and other resources more efficiently. We work to find sustainable solutions for soil health, help farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease. Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate with farmers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and others to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. To learn more about Monsanto in Hawaii, please visit monsantohawaii.com. Follow us on Twitter @monsantohawaii or Facebook (Monsanto Hawaii).
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said Head Coach Dean Chow. “Our first doubles had a close match and it was only Kaiea and Decker’s second match together.” Chow was very pleased with the teams’ play, commenting that the Farmers stay competitive and sometimes even win against players who have been practicing tennis for much longer. “Our players lack experience and exposure only,” he said. “When you match them up with players who have played for the same length of time, the Molokai players are head and shoulders above the other players.” The team will have a week off before hosting St. Anthony on Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28 at the Molokai High School Courts.
Poets to Slam at MMS and MHS MHS News Release Molokai High School students will be slammed on the first hour of their first day back from spring break on Monday, March 23. Molokai Middle School students will be slammed in the afternoon. All this slamming will be spoken by poets from Pacific Tongues. Assemblies at both schools will expose rural students to the rhythmic cadences of urban scenes when these Hawaii poets from Oahu will wow local teens with humor and pain, love and longing, darkness and hope – favorite teen topics – with original poems in a slam – poetic deliveries that sometimes assault audience ears with impassioned points-of-view. Slam poetry values passion over politeness. Pacific Tongues poets, led by Jason Mateo, Program Director, and Jocelyn Ng, award-winning poet, and three other slam poet-facilitators, will also conduct slam poetry classroom residencies at both schools throughout Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 23-25. On Tuesday afternoon, March 24, Molokai teachers from all schools are invited to a professional development session using classroom curriculum to teach poetry utilizing student culture, the classroom environment, and the community. They will offer proven techniques to engage students, from all grade levels, in critical conversations, creative writing, and the spoken arts. Pacific Tongues is coming to Molo-
kai schools through an ARTS First grant from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts which the team of Molokai High School librarian Diane Mokuau, counselor Alanna Kaho`ohanohano, and teacher Ric Ornellas, won for the schools. Pacific Tongues is a nonprofit arts organization founded a decade ago on Oahu that cultivates an active artistic Oceanic community of writers, spoken word performers, leaders, educators and students of all ages. They practice kuleana through creative workshops, public events and pedagogical development. While slam poetry rose in the past two decades from urban sensibilities and youthful angst in crowded settings, slam resonates on many levels for troubled teens. Given the rate of youth suicides on Molokai – which for the past six years has been double the national average for a population of 10,000 – slam poetry offers a voice to teens who may have lost their selfesteem and self-identity from negative peer pressures. Slam can be the critical opportunity for disenfranchised teens to assert their inner power through spoken word. Other Molokai schools will be able to work with visiting poets by coming on Wednesday, March 25 to share original work at a Slam Poetry Ohana Night at the Molokai High School Library at 6 p.m. Local Molokai poets Maile and Hanohano Naehu will also slam and feature their young poetry students.