Innovations Public Charter School is the recipient of a $6,000 grant from the Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts. This is the fourth year that IPCS has received the grant to fund a residency created by state-certified artist Vicki Penney-Rohner.
Innovations
receives arts grant
Innovations Public Charter School is the recipient of a $6,000 grant from the Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts. This is the fourth year that IPCS has received the grant to fund a residency created by state-certified artist Vicki Penney-Rohner.
Through the Artists In The Schools grant, Penney-Rohner has designed a program for IPCS that allows her to teach art all year long. The residency at IPCS focuses on providing seventh- and eighth-grade students weekly art classes throughout the semester. Portions of the grant were used to fund art classes with younger students, as well as to purchase much needed art supplies.
The HSFCA maintains a roster of teaching artists and any administrator or teacher in the public school system can contact one of those artists to design a residency, workshop or performance and write a grant proposal to submit to the HSFCA. The maximum available funds are $6,000 per grant. The school is required to match the grant with a 10 percent material contribution.
To find information on the grant process and qualified instructors, visit state.hi.us/sfca or contact Lei Ahsing at hawaiiartsalliance.org.
Kanu o ka Aina senior awarded scholarships
Kanu o ka Aina New Century Public Charter School senior Ernest Tavares has been selected as one of 80 nationwide finalists to receive the prestigious Renaissance and Global Scholarship to the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
The Renaissance and Global Scholarship is a full-tuition, four-year scholarship. Renaissance and Global Scholars are selected both for their academic achievement and because of their unique backgrounds — adding diversity to the student body.
Tavares also received a Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation scholarship at the North Hawaii Club level. At the district level, he was awarded again and had the distinction of ranking No. 1 among eight students from the four West Hawaii clubs.
Tavares will pursue a degree in economics. He has narrowed his college choices to the University of Rochester and the University of Pennsylvania, two of seven schools to which he applied and was accepted.
Parker debaters sweep state championship
Parker School’s debate team shone at the State Forensic Championship at Kamehameha and Punahou schools on Oahu this past weekend where 18 schools competed.
Parker senior Jesse Tarnas earned first place in the Championship Lincoln-Douglas debate category. Parker senior Kieran Najita came in second and Parker junior Tyler McCullough earned third in this same category. Parker juniors Emilie Skladzien and Elliott Jacobson earned the state championship in the beginning public forum debate category.
Tarnas and McCullough will compete at the National Forensic League National Tournament June 10 to 16 in Indianapolis.
Twenty-one Parker debate students qualified for the state tournament. Tarnas and Najita are the first national qualifiers for the school.
West Hawaii seniors earn citizenship awards, scholarships
Four students from West Hawaii are among 42 students from the state’s public schools receiving citizenship awards in recognition of their service to school and community. The award, which marked its eighth year, is a collaboration between the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and the Department of Education.
Award winners Brittany Denzer of Kealakehe High School, Ashley Teshima of Konawaena High School, Andrew Trump of Kohala High School and Shaye Lynn Baldos of Honokaa High School also each received a $1,000 scholarship. These students are standouts among their classmates, though not necessarily by dint of their scholastic achievements or other traditional yardsticks. This award honors young people who have contributed to making Hawaii a better place and who best exemplify the Department of Education’s vision of a model public high school graduate who, among other things, exercises the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Kealakehe May Day celebration Friday
The May Day celebration at Kealakehe Intermediate School begins at 8:45 a.m. Friday. This year’s celebration features the talents of the eighth-grade May Day court, the sixth- and seventh-grade Hawaiian studies students, Na Kahumoku students and the Kona Gospel Choir from the Salvation Army.
With an emphasis on respect and care for the environment, the program focuses on the elements of the planet: earth, wind, fire and water.
May 3 through 9, Gloria Juan-Tapaatoutai’s chorus and ukulele players will perform at Disneyland and other Southern California venues. Kealakehe Intermediate School students will be ambassadors sharing the culture of Hawaii. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for these keiki; donations for this experience are welcome.
Parker School recognizes students
Parker School has announced the names of students on its second trimester headmaster’s list and honor roll.
Upper school: Victoria Andrade-Mckeehan, Olivia Armandroff, Jaren Ashcraft, Tawny Bright, Jesse Burns, Bailey Calciolari, Carly Cappagli, Rachel Dunn, Brieanah Gouveia, Paul Gregg, Erika Hannon, Kira Harada-Stone, Madyson Harper, Kai Inaba, Stephanie Janovsky, Kosuke Kume, Mariko Langevin, Lysha Matsunobu, Tyler McCullough, Anna Moritz, Darcy Mulligan, Grant Nair, Kieran Najita, Kyley Nishimura, Tyler Saito, Mia Scibelli, Lauren Sweere, Jesse Tarnas, Maia Tarnas, Aidan Wharton, Sarah Willey, Hongjin Zhou, Desiree Ashley, Larissa Bolstad-Urquhart, Cody Brown, Marie Jobes, Shotaro Kume, Michael Note, Aolani Peiper, Nya Phillips, Luke Potter, Isabella Robertson, Marit Winborne, Joshua Yost, Megan Yost.
Middle school: Shelby Alligood, Fanny Arnouts, Lorenzo Arnouts, Nate Biondi, Jaipal Brar, Lucy Callender, Kawena Ching, Taylor Doherty, Kevin Grace, Carolyn Hiller, Kirk Hubbard, Erika Kasberg, Julia Lee, Kyra Matsuda, Owen Matsuda, Ben Miller, Alissa Mullin, Sivan Najita, Bethany Trusel, Skye Waipa, Dash Cotton, Garrett Davis, Riley Decker, Kieran Wiese Gibson, Braedon Ingalls, Sophia Kaufmann, Marlo Mundon, Kiana Nakamura, Harmony Ring, Hunter Weigle, Thea Woodward.
Christian school announces honor roll
Kona Christian Academy is pleased to announce that the following students have made honor roll and superior honor roll for the third quarter of the 2011-2012 school year.
Second grade: Kaiulani Bento, Kalae Mills, Jaron Nichols, Makana Carbonel-Mangus, Alex Payesko, Isabella Malendres, Josiah Kaaua, Leiana Atienza-Vehemente, Nuuhiwa Beatty, Shardelle Bellah, Alex Christensen, Kale Onaka, Micah Winkler, Michael Catanzaro, Kawaihua Paikuli-Campbell.
Third grade: Alyssa Anderson, Maya Calilao, Riley Estrada, Elizabeth Evans, Malia Guilloz, Leilani Kathe, Isaiah Easley, Christopher Kerr, Austin Pham.
Fourth grade: Ilinahe Beatty, Maia Mills, Kulani Paikuli-Campbell, Kaitlynn Sell, Kahoku Benson, Timmy Catanzaro, RJ Luea, Colby Hardie, Maura Wagner.
Fifth grade: Noa Baggs, Jenna Howery, Kamalu Kaupiko, Cressy Kerr, Trenton Quick, Kali Sotelo, Jaden Berney, David Casino, Shanti Eskildsen, Enjolique Hughes, Deja Logan, Witney O’Halloran, Blake Valencia, Shayna Valencia.
Sixth/seventh grade: Michelle Brunner, Gregory Kathe, Kayley Jakob, Kawena Villafania, Taylor Mabuni, Malaea Marks, Hailey Onaka, Katrina Whalen, Kaui Aguiar, William Bertsch, Michael Christensen, Hunter Cuaresma, Esai Easley, Brianne Lauro, DJ Madigan, Jonah Marks, Kimi Nakamura, Zion Nicholson, Lenae Nygaard, Matthew Rosato, Cindy Shim, Elisabeth St. Clair, Sean Vidana, Kahanu Villafania, Taylor Warnecke.