This project aims to combat food insecurity in Waimea by distributing meal kits containing all ingredients necessary to prepare a healthy and delicious meal for a family of 4-6 people once a month. I received donations from over 15 local businesses and over $2,000 in monetary donations through my grant and various other supporters, which I used to source ingredients and materials for my meal kits, focusing on supporting local businesses as much as possible. I have distributed 250 meal kits to 50 families over the span of 6 months.

The Seed 2 School pilot program engaged educators (grades K-12th within Hawaii) fascinated by the idea of integrating the ancient art, science, and practice of seed saving/sharing within their classrooms. This program was designed around piloting a new piece of technology that could be used as the basis for seed exchanges between schools within the same island across the State. With feedback from the past 4 months the interactive platform will be updated over the summer to include mechanisms that improve its function and use, as the foundation of a sustainable seed-sharing economy.

The aim of the project is to expand native Hawaiian plant knowledge to students at Kaiser High School. To do so, the team came up with the idea to create botanical signs for the garden that includes basic information on the native Hawaiian plants and a QR code linking to a student-designed website. The garden is now filled with these QR codes and the website is on its way for completion.

This project focuses on reviving and saving the existing native forests that are left in Pālehua that are being taken over by invasive plants and invasive animals such as cattle, pigs and goats. By removing invasive plants and replant natives, like the lama trees, we are helping further restore our water supply, native resources, ecosystem health, and providing our community a resource to learn and experience the up-land area of our community.

To investigate another form of renewable energy generation, I built wave energy converter that employed the rack and pinion method as a means to convert the linear motion of the waves into rotational motion to spin generators. The device was successful in being able to harness the potential energy in waves at the beach where it was deployed. Observations were made on how the device performed and I can see many improvements that can be made in the future!

The Kōkua Tree is a student-run nonprofit organization in Hawai'i which harvests surplus produce and donates this produce to various hunger relief agencies across the island. Our agency partners include The Pantry, Hawai'i Foodbank, and (primarily) Aloha Harvest. The Kōkua Tree is devoted to reducing food waste and food insecurity in the state of Hawai'i.

My Hawaii Youth Sustainability Challenge was to code a video game that would teach the user (mainly tourist) about Hawaii's Animals, through caring for an animal from baby to adulthood. After playing the video game, user will come away learning specific-expert-determined general information about the animal and the user's role in protecting the various species, specifically how far away to stay or how to care for and who to call or email if animal or plant is in danger or distress. Then, as an incentive for tourist to play and for businesses to get the opportunity to aid in the protection of the Hawaii’s animals, in concert with getting additional business, video game users will be offered coupons from the local business after playing the video game and learning about Hawaii’s animals and how to protect it.

Climate Change is not something you can easily just get rid of and my group and I believe education is where we needed to start. This is how we did it: After we presented an educational Google Slides about Climate Change to the Lower School Gardening Club, they had to find 5 ways to help fight Climate Change. Then, assuming Middle School and High School already understand what Climate Change is, we shared an educational Google Slides about Tree Mapping with Middle School and promoted a community service opportunity (switching their search engines to Ecosia) to High School. Both Tree Mapping and switching search engines are easy and efficient ways to fight Climate Change!

Our team has a prototype for community-level, organics recycling through the use of compost. It supports community economic development, lowering our carbon footprint and improves food systems.

The prototype is a mobile cardb oard shredding system which takes cardboard or paper and processes it into mulching materials, a compost ingredient and packaging material.

I created a device that harnesses the energy from ocean currents to produce cleaner, renewable energy to replace coal and fossil fuels. This will be executed by creating a prototype of an underwater turbine. This will be implemented through getting in contact with an organization with the funding to build a full scale version of my prototype in the ocean.

Our project is all about educating people about sharks. We want to get people to care about sharks instead of fear them. To do this we plan on creating an influential platform to reach as many people as possible about why we need to save sharks and how endangered they really are. We all want to share sharks' importance to cultures around the world.

Research and an experiment was performed to better understand "compostable plastics." Due to the excess plastic consumption during school lunch, we felt that it was necessary to better understand how it affects our environment. We have learned and observed that the plastics do not compost naturally, and are collected as regular trash.

The goal for my project was to use my skills as an artist to create art pieces that would be used to inform/educate people on circular economy and sustainability. I would achieve this by creating one art piece that represents a chosen topic and then split it up into multiple squares (posts) so that it would appear on my profile as one picture. Each post would also contain a quote or information about the chosen topic along with sources.

The purpose of this project is to create a fully autonomous surface rover to monitor the health of coral reefs. Replacing the current labor-intensive methods being used. This rover would record video data of the reef to be used for monitoring. This video data can then be interpreted by an AI model to determine the health and species of the coral shown.

In the beginning of the project we visited Puʻuloa to learn the history about the place and pick up akulikuli as well. After that we put the akulikuli in water to grow roots and while that was happening we started to plan out the supplies we needed. When we got the supplies we made our kits and are ready to hand it out to ur families.

Beseech the Beach and Keep its Reach is a project based on the coastal erosion of Hawaii's beaches due to climate change. Our project originally aimed to create designs and test models of them in a simulated beach environment, then get building permits and create an actual wall. However, after many difficulties, our project mainly ended up being a project aimed at creating sustainable designs with unique additions to impede erosion and generate renewable energy.

We are growing pink oyster mushrooms in two different types of substrate, one being a homemade fountain grass substrate, the other a store bought straw pellet substrate. Fountain grass in a highly invasive species that takes up a lot of land native Hawaiian plants going be growing in. This is why we are trying to determine whether fountain grass can be put to use by using it as a substrate.

Our project involved tackling the increased amount of food waste within our own community. Our objective was to showcase and put a spotlight on bokashi composting since it was a big solution to a big problem. Therefore, we presented and demonstrated bokashi composting to people within our school including the FFA Club, ANR Teachers/students, some culinary students, etc.