• Rotary Club • Host families sought • Miss Island Mokihana • Documentary, ‘The World We Want’ • Kaua‘i Under-Ground Arts • Native Hawaiian education Rotary Club Champions teachers Koloa School Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach supports Koloa School as
• Rotary Club
• Host families sought
• Miss Island Mokihana
• Documentary, ‘The World We Want’
• Kaua‘i Under-Ground Arts
• Native Hawaiian education
Rotary Club
Champions teachers
Koloa School
Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach supports Koloa School as it prepares for the school year ahead. Koloa School Principal Debbie Lindsay and Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach community service director, Bill Prinzing display Wal-Mart store cards that will be given to each teacher to buy school supplies. With so many cutbacks in the classroom and the current economy strangling household budgets, teachers are seeing about 15 to 20 percent of their students come to school with very little to work with in terms of school supplies. Many teachers are paying out of their own pockets to provide basic classroom supplies.
The Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach is stepping up to do what they can to support teachers and literacy in the community.
Host families sought
2009-10 school year
Island wide
STS Foundation is still looking for host families for the upcoming school year. International high school exchange students are coming to study on Kaua‘i. These students will integrate into a Kaua‘i family with the goal of experiencing American culture as an American high school student. In turn they will provide insight into their own culture.
The host family provides a separate bed, family meals and a safe environment.
Two students STS is looking for host families in the area for this year are Roberto and Lorena. Roberto is an 18 year-old boy from Caracas, Venezuela. He loves playing baseball and is fond of many other sports. He speaks Spanish, Italian and English. Lorena is a 15 year-old girl from Burgthann, Germany who loves playing tennis. She also enjoys playing basketball and volleyball as well as watching many other sports. Other hobbies include playing guitar and cooking. She is fond of writing and would like to be a journalist. They are both excellent students and will have their own spending money and health insurance.
If your family is interested in being a host family call Lillian, 1-800-522-4678 or e-mail, lillian@stsfoundation.org. For more information visit stsfoundation.org. STS Foundation, a non profit student exchange organization has been doing this for 20 years.
Miss Island Mokihana
Entry deadline Aug. 21
Pageant Oct. 10
Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Organization will host the first ever Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant. The organization is looking for young ladies who currently live on Kaua‘i and either attend school (high school senior or college) or working on a full-time basis. Interested contestants must be at least 17 years-old (as of October 10, 2009) and no older than 24 on December 31, 2010. A complete list of requirements will be made available at time of inquiry. The main reason for this program is to offer tuition scholarship assistance to the women who participate.
In these tough economic times these young women are electing to go directly into the workforce and not seek their dreams of higher education. This pageant will give these women the opportunity to attain tuition scholarship assistance. The Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant will be held October 10, 2009 at the Historic Waimea Theater. The Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant serves as a preliminary pageant to Miss Hawai‘i which will be held on O‘ahu June 2010. For more information on becoming a sponsor or contestant contact Avery Kano – General Chairman at info@missislandmokihana.org or call him, 639.1301.
Documentary, ‘The World We Want’
6 p.m. Aug. 22
Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center
Kaua‘i Youth Network, a project of the YWCA of Kaua‘i and Boys and Girls Club of Kaua‘i, will present “The World We Want”, a documentary film about young people leading change. The film follows youth from 30 different countries who are making a difference.
Following the film, KYN Members will present their own plans to lead change here on Kaua‘i.
The Kaua‘i Youth Network is a new youth-led organization, ages 14 to 25 who represent opinions and concerns of the island’s young people, and who are committed to positive social change. The Kaua‘i Youth Network offers a self-directed forum for youth with balanced representation of all schools, neighborhoods and districts to be engaged in on-going opportunities to learn, act and develop as leaders. The KYN helps youth fulfill their goals and encourages young people to think globally and act locally. Movie cost is $2, students; $5, adults.
Kaua‘i Under-Ground Arts
Hip-hop
4 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Sept. 2
KUGA is beginning a new nine-week session for 8 to 12 year olds in Kalaheo. If your child is passionate about dancing and expressing themselves send them this way. KUGA is next to the 76 gas station in Kalaheo. To register visit kuga808.com.
Native Hawaiian education
Expansion
For teachers
University of Hawai‘i Curriculum Studies College of Education will receive a $1.14 million over a three year period to expand and improve Native Hawaiian education programs for science teachers, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye announced today.
“Native Hawaiian students are underrepresented in the science majors and these funds will expand opportunities for students and teachers to study the sciences,” Inouye said. “Hopefully greater exposure to the sciences will encourage more Native Hawaiian students to explore them further after graduation.”
The money will be used to help fund the University of Hawai‘i’s “Kulia I Ka Nuu” (Strive for the Summit) program. This culturally responsive, place-based professional development program focuses on science for teachers of Native Hawaiian Students. The program addresses the need to prepare effective, culturally competent K to 12 teachers to support the academic achievement of Native Hawaiian students, particularly in the science area.
Kulia I Ka Nuu intends to establish six exemplary school and community sites led by teachers and peer instructors on Kaua‘i, Maui, Oahu, Molokai and Hawai‘i.
Twenty in-service science teachers are expected to participate each year and six site teachers and twenty project teachers will impact the learning of well over 1,000 students each year.
