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 […]
Connecting Federal Resources to Farmers: NRCS (Hawaii Food and Farmer)
Connecting federal resources of the USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service with farmers and ranchers throughout the Pacific Islands. This week on Hawaii Food and Farmers series, we’ll learn how NRCS can assist landowners, farmers and ranchers throughout the Hawaiian islands to manage natural resources, receive technical assistance and participate in cost-share programs. The host […]
Mini-Medical School on Healthy Aging (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
An engaging, educational, and entertaining program to help us all learn critical information for our later years This week we discuss this enlightening, free series of five sessions, wherein a broad range of topics related to healthy aging practices are described. The host for this episode is Ethan Allen. The guest for this episode is […]
Bamboo Bikes Hawaii (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
Meet the Co-founders of Bamboo Bikes Hawaii and learn about how they create locally harvested custom bike frames and offer 3-day framebuilding workshops in Kailua. This week Kara Miller is joined by the Co-Founders of Bamboo Bikes Hawaii to talk about the company, how they got started, and how the community benefits from there bikes. […]
Linking Land and Sea (Likable Science)
Informing ridge-to-reef management in Hawai’i Across the Pacific, declining natural resources have contributed to a cultural renaissance of customary ridge-to-reef management approaches, such as indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCA), where local communities voluntarily protect natural resources through customary laws. Resource managers need an informed understanding of land-sea linkages, and improved tools that can evaluate […]
Ebeye Marine Science Field Camp (Pacific Partnerships in Education)
Empowering the Next Generation of Island Ocean Leaders in Kwajalein Atoll, RMI Kara is leading a 2 week long marine science field camp in Ebeye, RMI this summer for 11 and 12th grade high school students participating in the RMI, PSS Spartan Summer camp program. The camp will expose students to snorkeling and simple methods […]
Creative Strategies for Successful English Language Learning (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
Strategies that have proven successful in in one culture may be adapted and adopted to work in others, with suitable modification. ELL strategies that have proven successful in Hispanic cultures and situations will be outlined, and the adjustments being made to optimize these strategies for Pacific Island cultures will be discussed. Various approaches to the […]
Pacific Voices (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
Promoting Positive Cultural Learning Among Micronesian Youth. The episode will explore the little-known yet prolific afterschool and weekend programs conducted by Pacific Voices Initiative and Kokua Kalihi Valley Center at the public housing commonly and known as KPT – now called Towers of Kuhio Park. The KKVC program targets school age children with a variety […]
Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands – Part 2 (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
Creating a video to commemorate the legacy of US Nuclear Testing in the Pacific. This week on Pacific Partnerships in Education, Daniel Lin, Director of the Pacific Storytellers Cooperative, joins Ethan Allen to talk about the creation of the video to commemorate the US Nuclear Testing in the Pacific.The host for this episode is Ethan […]
Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands (Pacific Partnerships In Education)
This week on Pacific Partnerships in Education, Daniel Lin and Ethan Allen discuss the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands. Together they will talk about the Pacific Storytellers Cooperative and how does this project fit in as well as voyaging with the Okeanos Marshall Islands canoe. The host for this episode was Ethan Allen. The […]