Congratulations to Grace Benton and Ami Kinnamon of Kalāheo High School.

The Windward Academy for Career Tech Education hosted its second annual PBA (performance based assessment) event yesterday at the Koʻolau Ballroom. "A PBA is a real world, industry problem-based or design-based culminating challenge that assesses students' knowledge and skills of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathway program. The challenges, developed by local industry partners, ask students to develop a solution or product and present their ideas to the industry professionals."
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Hikaʻalani's challenge, in the field of digital media, was to create a video public service announcement that depicts our vision, raises awareness of our work at Ulupō, and issues a call to action for volunteers to attend our second-Saturday community work days. 
Six teams made it to the finals: three each from Kalāheo H.S. and Kailua H.S. All six PSAs are very worthy of use on our web and fb pages and will, in fact, appear monthly on these pages as community workday announcements and reminders. Look for the winning entry to appear, as well, as a regularly scheduled PSA on KFVE The Home Team.  

See our 3-1-18 post below for additional insight into the CTE challenge and how it engaged  Hikaʻalani and our Koʻolau high schools. -- Kīhei de Silva
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Mahalo ia oe e @chadtakatsugi no ka lawe ana mai i na keiki Angels at Play i keia la. He lealea no. -- Kaleo Wong

Pākukui, oia ka hana ana i na makalua a nunui; alaila, hali i ka lau kukui, hoopiha a uhi aku i ka lepo. A hala he mau pule, alaila, pulu ka lau kukui, a laila kanu na huli. He mea e ka ikaika o ka ulu ana o ke kalo ma ia ano; e ulu no ia ehiku kapuai ke kiekie a oi aku. A o kona kalo, he 20 paona a oi aku, e like me ka nui o ka pakukui, pela no ka nui o kona ulu haaheo ana a me ka io - Kepelino “Moolelo Hawaii”. The pakukui method consists of digging large holes and filling them with kukui leaves and then covering them with soil. After some weeks the leaves are decayed and the kalo is planted. It is amazing how big the kalo grows in this style; growing to 7 feet tall and more and the corm weighing 20 pounds or more. The more kukui you use, the bigger they will grow.  -- Kaleo Wong

Hau we spent the morning. Clearing hau, creating aina with UH/KCC MINA. -- Kaleo Wong

Kaleo: Sciencing, combining kanaka and western to grow our 20 varieties of Hawaiian uala ... ieleele, iliahi, mana pohaku, papaa kowahi, kaneohe ulaula, kaneohe keokeo, huamoa, palau, palaai, pauohiiaka, kala, mohihi, kalia, piko, lanikeha, and 5 unnamed ones. most are from Waimea, some from @noiau, 1 each from @kaualehuohaiku. @meapaahana, and @kepalino. Who else got? looking for uahiapele, uniki, and anyother kanaka variety.