Daniel Moriarty Memorial Scholarship Deadline June 30 Kilaueapoint.org The Kilauea Point Natural History Association is now accepting applications for the annual Daniel Moriarty Memorial Scholarship, a press release states. Created in 1998, the scholarship honors the memory of the late
Daniel Moriarty
Memorial Scholarship
Deadline June 30
Kilaueapoint.org
The Kilauea Point Natural History Association is now accepting applications for the annual Daniel Moriarty Memorial Scholarship, a press release states. Created in 1998, the scholarship honors the memory of the late Daniel Moriarty, manager of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge between 1979 and 1990 and an outstanding environmental educator and conservationist. Moriarty played a major role in fostering a strong conservation ethic in the community, the release states. The scholarship award, up to $2,000, is applied directly to college or university expenses.
Students studying in the broadly-defined fields of botany, zoology, natural history and related subjects concerning the Hawaiian environment, are encouraged to apply. The fields of wildlife management, interpretation, conservation and environmental education are also included. To be eligible, the student must have been a resident of Hawai‘i within the last five years, been accepted or enrolled in a four-year college or university, and maintained a grade-point average of 3.0 or better.
The scholarship application can be downloaded from the association’s website or by calling 828-0384.
Winners’ Camp
July 18 to 24; Aug. 8 to 14
O‘ahu
For the 25th anniversary Winners’ Camp is offering $100 scholarships to all campers applying in 2010. The one-week retreat is held on top of Kamehameha Ridge, O‘ahu. Outer-Island campers are met at the airport and shuttled to the camp. Teens learn skills to help them navigate their way through the challenges of school pressures, social culture and personal self-confidence, states a press release. Goal-setting, memory training and visualization techniques are some of the methods taught. Total tuition with scholarship is $880. Register at winnerscamp.com or call Kaua‘i coordinator Rosemary Smith, 822-5216.
Student kudos
Arrisa Thronas
NSHSS acceptance
The National Society of High School Scholars announced in a release that the Kamehameha School’s Kapalama student, Arrisa Thronas of Kapa‘a, was selected for membership. The society recognizes top scholars and invites only those who have achieved academic excellence.
Host a foreign
exchange student
2010-11 school year
Deadline: August 31
The Center for Cultural Interchange is looking for families to host foreign-exchange students from their Academic Year Program. AYP offers students the chance to be fully-immersed in a cultural experience which includes connecting with a host family in the U.S., attending an American high school, participating in eco-focused activities through AYP and experiencing first-hand life as a teenager in America, states a press release. CCI needs to place 1,000 foreign-exchange students from more than 40 countries around the world. All students placed are 15 to 18 years old and proficient in English.
For more information potential families can go to cci-exchange.com/host.htm or call CCI’s toll-free number, 1-800-634-4771.
Leadership
scholarship
Application deadline: July 2
agleaderhi.org
The Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawai‘i has opened recruitment for its new class of leadership training. Applicants statewide are sought for the 16-month Agricultural Leadership Program that is geared for promising leaders from Hawai’i’s agricultural, natural-resources management and rural-community sectors. Recruitment information and applications are available on ALFH’s website or contact Kim Coffee-Isaak at 1-808-947-2914 or kim@agleaderhi.org.
The ALP is composed of a series of six seminars and a two-week national trip. The four-day seminars are held around the state about every eight weeks. The core curriculum includes training in group process, facilitation, and strategic planning led by Donna Ching of the University of Hawai‘i. Educational field trips to farms, ranches, aquaculture and ag-forestry businesses, nurseries, watershed-protection areas, cultural projects and other rural-community endeavors are also essential to the program. The national trip includes one week in Washington, D.C. to study national and international issues, and one week in another state (of the class’ choice) to be exposed to agricultural and rural-community systems.
Tuition is $4,000, which is roughly one-quarter of the estimated value of the program. Scholarships from donors are available for applicants with financial hardships.
ALP alumni from Kaua‘i include Laurie Goodwin, Laurie Ho, Steve Kai, Val Kaneshiro, Ed Kawamura, Tim Martin, Jerry Ornellas, Liz Ronaldson, Mike Shimatsu, Johanna Ventura, Kawika Winter and Randy Yokoyama.
GIAC
Selected for donations
Davidallio.com.
The Garden Island Arts Council has been selected to receive direct donations from online galleries of professional photographer David Allio, a press release states. The direct-donations program will continue for at least 18 months as a way to help fund art activities on Kaua‘i. GIAC is a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization comprised of an all-volunteer board of directors who provide a year-round program of art, cultural activities and events for the benefit of residents of and visitors to Kaua‘i. All of the proceeds from Allio’s original figure art works have gone into scholarship programs in Europe and on the Mainland. This direct donation program to GIAC is an extension of the concept of using Allio’s existing artworks to promote the arts on Kaua‘i. In the current economic and political climate, funding for the arts has become an easy target for removal from the classroom curriculum. Effective immediately, over two dozen fine-art figure galleries, exhibitions, pictorials and photo essays may be accessed through the links available in the Arts section on Allio’s Website.
Visit gardenislandarts.org for more information.
