1. Bring your own water bottle. The event is going green this year. The Haiku Elementary School’s fifth graders will man food waste collection bins, so cheer them on as they schlep the food waste at the top of the hour every hour to the Mala O Haiku School garden, where they will bury it with Bokashi. “I would love to see the students processing more of the cafeteria food … [Read more...] about 10 Things To Do At The Haiku Hoolaulea and Flower Festival
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Global Technology High School Students Work On Vintage Erector Sets For Kamaaina Loan
It’s 10am on the Global Technology High School campus in Wailuku and sophomores Eli Sokolow and Anthony Romero are connecting metal girders to a motor. It’s part of their project to get an Erector Set model of a parachute drop working in time for First Friday Wailuku. In fact, all the students are working together to create two working moving models of this vintage circus set … [Read more...] about Global Technology High School Students Work On Vintage Erector Sets For Kamaaina Loan
Cultural Diversity and Religious Shoes and Really Dumb School Officials
CULTURAL DIVERSITY The U.S. Congress may suffer dismal popularity ratings (less savory than head lice, according to one survey), but it’s saintly compared to India’s legislatures, which contain six accused rapists at the state level and two in the national parliament. Thirty-six local officials, as well, have been charged with sexual assault (according to India’s Association … [Read more...] about Cultural Diversity and Religious Shoes and Really Dumb School Officials
Students Win Maui Mall Family Sundays
Earlier this year, the Maui Mall established “Family Sundays” to celebrate the joy of learning and encourage students to succeed in school. Each month since April, a few exemplary students of Maui County who were nominated by their teachers were recognized on stage for their achievements and entered into a drawing for an iPad or iPod. At the event’s finale on Jan. 6, 2013, all … [Read more...] about Students Win Maui Mall Family Sundays
2012 Nonprofit Charity Gift Guide
And here we are at another holiday season on Maui. Radio stations start playing Jawaiian versions of old Christmas standards, the beaches started filling up with evermore tourists and store owners start lining their shelves with Santa in beach shorts trinkets. Oh, and the island’s nonprofit organizations–which increasingly have to take up the slack left when government shrinks … [Read more...] about 2012 Nonprofit Charity Gift Guide