Driving real policy change through empowering, educating, and engaging students and community members In this episode of Business in Hawaii we’ll take a look at HawaiiKidsCan. The host for this episode is Dailyn Yanagida. The guest for this episode is David Miyashiro. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm […]
Raising the Bar for Education in Hawaii (Education Matters)
Education Matters In this episode of Education Matters, HPU Junior joins Jay Fidell to talk about International Business and Spanish at Hawaii Pacific University. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guest for this episode is Satara Johnson. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday […]
Currents in Pacific Education: Trends & Issues (Pacific Partnerships in Education)
Events are transforming Pacific island education processes and practices We’ll discuss some ongoing and upcoming challenges and issues in Pacific island education, including: (a) the impacts of the ending of COFA funding on Hawaii’s schools and potential responses to this, such as creating ‘transition’ schools, and (b) the possible separation of Chuuk State from the […]
Part II: Support for Public Education or Misguided Public Policy? (Talk Story)
Investment Property Tax to Fund Public Education This week on Talk Story, Cory Rosenlee, Executive Director, Hawaii School Teachers Association, joins John Waihee to discuss supporting authorizing the State to tax investment property to fund public education. The host for this episode is John Waihee. The guest for this episode is Corey Rosenlee. ThinkTech Hawaii […]
Scholar App: A Hawaii Entrepreneur’s Journey (Business in Hawaii)
Hawaii Venture Capital Association’s 2016 Student Entrepreneur of the Year A Farrington High School graduate, Traven Watase created Scholar’s App after experiencing frustrations with scholarships from both a student and donor’s perspective. He had two main issues: 1) Completing paper applications individually was extremely time consuming, and 2) The difficulty of finding scholarships he qualified […]
Arctic – Tropical Climate Change Connections (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
A trip exploring some climate change themes and issues shared by the Marshall Islands and Greenland. The world’s largest island, the arctic behemoth of Greenland, and the tiny, remote, equatorial atoll islands of the Marshall Islands are experiencing similar impacts of climate change. We’ll show a brief video in which poets from both locations share […]
Education Tax a Pandoras Box (ThinkTech Commentary)
The best laid plans, we are told, often go awry. But the saying should come with an asterisk that adds, “Especially when it comes to politicians counting on revenue from tax hikes. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through […]
Tropical Tutoring (Humane Architecture)
An Update from Dr. Bill Chapman This show is following up with one of the human(e) architecture show’s first guests Dr. Bill Chapman as an update with him as the (re)fresh(ing) Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Hawaii Manoa. The host for this episode is Martin Despang. The guest for this […]
What’s next for our Little League World’s Series champs? (Working Together)
What are college coaches looking for? In this episode of Working Together, Darren L. Vorderbruegge joins Cheryl Crozier Garcia to talk about what’s next for our Little League World’s Series champs? What are college coaches looking for and how should those kids and parents position themselves to capitalize on their victory to secure scholarships at […]
Who’s Who in Gugeegue (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
Introducing the 2018 Ebeye Spartan Marine Science Campers Kara and Kayla recently returned from the 2018 Ebeye Spartan Summer Camp in Gugueegue, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. With Kayla’s assistance, Kara lead a marine science field camp for 40 select high school students. They spent two rigorous weeks together learning all about the […]