Female leadership in ancient Kona discussed
Pualani Lincoln Maielua will present “Alii Wahine: Female Leadership and Sacred Places of Ancient Kona.”
The free talk is from 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday at West Hawaii Civic Center and is part of Kona Historical Society’s Hanohano O Kona Lecture Series. It offers a look into the dynamic Hawaiian chiefesses of Kona whose lineages hailed from the gods and the sacred places which ground them. Maielua is an aukai (long distance voyager) aboard the voyaging canoe Makalii, and an instructor at the University of Hawaii Center, West Hawaii, in the Hawaii lifestyles program.
Info: 323-3222, konahistorical.org.
National Voter Registration Day Tuesday
The League of Women Voters of Hawaii County will be participating in National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday.
The league will be at the Kailua-Kona KTA on Palani Road from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help people register to vote or update their registration if they have moved.
Oct. 10 is the deadline to register or update voter registration in Hawaii.
The organization also hosts VOTE411.org, a website with timely election information.
Nonprofits may apply to win defibrillators
Big Island Toyota will donate 20 automated external defibrillators (AEDS) to Hawaii Island nonprofits. Each recipient will receive free training as part of the donation. Deadline for submitting applications and nominations is Oct. 15. Mail applications to: Big Island Toyota, 811 Kanoelehua Avenue, Hilo, HI 96720, Attn: Calvin Koga – Giving Committee Chairperson. Info: Lisa Rantz at 932-3636.
Winning nonprofits will be notified by Oct. 20.
The donations come through Hilo Medical Center Foundation’s Be a Lifesaver Hawaii Program, which is a collaboration with Hawaii County Fire Department and the County of Hawaii to raise awareness surrounding sudden cardiac arrest and train the community in CPR to increase survival rates.
Students invited to compete in poetry recitation contest
Honolulu Theatre for Youth and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts invite high school students from across the state to compete in the 2016-17 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
To get involved, high school teachers should contact Honolulu Theatre for Youth at 839-9885 ext. 704 or email edadmin@htyweb.org. Deadline to register is Dec. 16.
Schools are invited to participate in classroom and schoolwide contests, advancing to a state competition on Feb. 12, 2017, in Honolulu. The state champion will receive $200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Finals April 24-26, 2017, in Washington, D.C., where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will be distributed.
Program materials are available for download at poetryoutloud.org.
First Dr. Richard Crowe Invitational Science Fair held
On Saturday the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum hosted the Dr. Richard Crowe Invitational Science Fair at Mauna Lani Resort during HawaiiCon. One student from each high school around the Big Island was invited to compete in this inaugural science competition.
Taking first place in the physical sciences division, Keaau High School junior Allan Simeon presented his project on detecting exoplanetary transits using 1-meter and 0.4-meter LCOGT networks to determine the minimum magnification required to record such transits. Hilo High School senior Moana Pinner took first place in the life sciences division and best overall for her project, investigating the SPF, anti-oxident and anti cancer potential of organic tumeric and ginger combinations on HTB67 and HTB69 melanoma cancer cells. Both students will go on to compete at the district science fair on Oahu.