21
COMPLETED PROJECTS
47
STUDENT LEADS
16,525
$ AWARDED
Building school gardens to fulfill the need for local, sustainable food production in their community. Students opened the Rusty Fork Cafe to serve a menu entirely based off of their school-grown produce to feed the community.
Outreach education and subscription box in which customers receive locally sourced products and a native Hawaiian plant to be taken home or donated to the outreach program at an elementary school.
Erosion control, growing native plants, removing marine debris, periodic testing for fire ants, brush control around archeological sites, and Native Hawaiian signage.
Outdoor learning space -- living chess board with planter pots to be used as chess pieces.
Student-run camp experience about plastic waste -- making your own solar powered ovens, compostable/edible utensils, etc.
Creating and running an entrepreneurial school garden.
Creating a student "green" business that will become sustainable using natural resources to produce organic earth-friendly products
Students restoring a Mala'ai through “ma ka hana ka ʻike” or “in working one learns.”
Creating 3-5 short animated films. The bigger goal is to create a portal and video tutorials.
Helping agriculture teachers and students to efficiently produce food in unfertile urban conditions with the use of computer-assisted monitoring technologies.
A second student-run worm bin to process waste into products of higher value (vermicast and surplus worms) than what is processed in the hot compost piles.
A solar powered compost tea brewer to bring a consistent supply of quality compost tea to the farming site. Most tea brewers need to be plugged into an outlet.
Building recycling bins and sand sifters for Pu’uloa Beach Park to engage beachgoers to recycle.
Providing metal utensils to students to replace plastic utensils at lunch.
Constructing and running a school-wide aquaponics farm for grades K-12.
Creating an aquaponics system to encourage discussion of sustainable and healthy food production. From this system, creating a scalable State operation to help combat Hawai‘i's lack of food production.
Reducing (or even eliminating) food waste produced at school through a food waste collection system and garden produce integration with the school cafeteria.
Building respect by instilling righteousness within middle school students through classroom aquaponics.
An alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) car show/parade to educate the people of Molokai and give them an opportunity to view AFVs in person, increasing the likelihood of our community moving towards fossil fuel independence by 2045.
Creating a utensil-holding water bottle attachment that allows any person with a resuable water bottle to eliminate the need for single-use plastic utensils.
An aquaponic tank to fulfill school's after school program's need for garden space and healthier, cleaner, and green plants to eat. 6th graders are built three, ten-gallon aquaponic systems, which will lead to a bigger one in the future.
The 2017-2018 Hawaiʻi Youth Sustainability Challenge would not be possible without the support from:
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