Molokai High students to test hydroponic strawberry planting

It will be an exercise in basic economics of agriculture as well as an introduction to a new technology with a sweet finish at harvest time.

With the start of the new school year, 13 Molokai High School juniors and seniors will be engaged in Molokai Hydroponic Strawberry Cultivation, a project supported with a $5,000 grant from Maui Economic Development Board's Ke Alahele Education Fund.

This is an example of an innovative educational program that will provide multi-faceted benefits to the students who participate," said Jeanne Unemori Skog, MEDB President and CEO.

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Source: Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.

The Women in Technology Project in partnership with Hawai'i FIRST LEGO® have extended the deadline to sign up for hands-on coaches’ training at the 3rd Annual Hawai'i FIRST LEGO® League New Coaches Clinic. The new deadline for interested participants is August 8, 2009.

The program teaches new FLL coaches about team management, offers basic building/programming skills and provides links to curriculum.

For more information, please download the following documents:

FLL New Coaches Clinic General Information

FLL Clinic Agenda

Punahou School freshman Travis Le says a high-tech educational project on the summit of Haleakala allowed him to submit an award-winning Science Fair project on extrasolar planets.

He is among hundreds of students around the world discovering they don't need a starship to explore space. They have been given the keys to the Faulkes Telescope (North), a 2-meter telescope designed for youngsters to find opportunities in science and technology while they peer at the distant reaches of the universe from the keyboard of their computers.

Source: Maui Economic Development Board, Inc.
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