We plan to create and promote a practical, user-friendly solution for pet owners to manage dog waste by developing water-soluble packets containing bokashi. These bokashi packets can be thrown into the pet poop bags where it will start fermenting the poop and turning it into fertilizer. We will begin with producing the bokashi and encapsulating them in water-soluble packets. We then plan on testing how long it takes the water-soluble packets to dissolve in dog poop. After testing, we will make a bunch of them and package for distribution. To market them, we will design and print educational posters using Canva. We will also distribute them for free to vets and pet shops with our label on them as advertisement. Finally, we will market them to the rest of the public. 

Our project focuses on detection & monitoring of the devastating, federally listed invasive species, Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB), in the Kawainui Marsh complex through community engagement and education. Partnering with local government official Lisa Marten and University of Hawaii CTAHR staff, we will organize a CRB workshop at school, teaching participants to build traps and raise awareness. We will source materials to build the traps, write school newsletter articles, and create fliers, posters, and social media posts to recruit volunteers and educate our school community. In collaboration with my school's Kawainui Stewardship Impact Academy, students will build traps and monitor and report findings at three sites: Nā Pōhaku o Hauwahine, Kahanaiki, and Hāmākua Marsh. Our project will wrap up for the school year with an information booth at the I Love Kailua Town Fair that will showcase CRB traps, share findings, and educate the public about this critical issue. 

For my environmental mental health initiative, I hope to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the younger generation of Hawaii while at the same time increasing awareness and taking action on the climate change issue by instilling and encouraging gratitude and acts of aloha towards our ʻāina. Countless studies have shown the benefits expressing gratitude can do to improve mental wellbeing. 

For my project, My idea is to have students write gratitude letters to the land, where they write what they love about the environment, and write one thing they can do to take care of the thing they love. After getting students from Kindergarten to Grade 5 at Punahou School (hopefully I will have at least 100 letters), I want to create a book showcasing the letters of these students to serve as a beacon of hope others can look at to get the same impact I hope the students get out of writing these leaders when they read the letters: which is an appreciation for the land and a sense of kūleana to take care of the land. I hope to have this book be featured in our school library or somewhere publicly accessible to the community. Next, I hope to be able to then hold a statewide competition for students from Kindergarten to 8th grade and all high school students to be able to participate in a gratitude letter/momento creation competition. After choosing winners, I hope to showcase their work on instagram/my website, and also create a youtube video/documentary interviewing these students on what inspired them to create these projects, and talk more about how this project impacted them, and see how their views on their responsibility to the land have changed and how they plan to act on it. Along with these competitions, I also hope to be able to partner with local environmental organizations like Paepae o Heʻeia, Waikalua Loko Iʻa or Malama Maunalua and co-host community service days or hold my own community service days, but tie in a gratitude aspect at the start of these days to really solidify and put my work out in the real service world. One idea I had to incorporate this gratitude aspect was to have volunteers all share things that they were grateful for in the land that they were helping, or gratitude they had for the environment in general. 

Ho'omau Ka ike o ka aina is a project that would focus on some of the most important aspects of conservation in our islands, education and Availability. We would like to educate our school community and any others who would like to join in about what our native species are, the threats to our wonderful biodiversity, and why our 'aina is important. We will try to focus on teaching how to care for our la'au 'oiwi(native plants) as they are the backbone for every other part of hawai'i. We want to cultivate and propagate not only plants, but the knowledge of our aina as well. In May we would then give away a majority of what we would propagate, making available so many unique and vital plant species. We would want the final takeaway for people to be the desire to Mālama 'āina, to desire to care for the land. 

For this project, I plan to go to at least 4 different elementary and middle schools in the 'Ewa Moku. My group and I plan to teach the 3rd and 4th graders about some of Hawai'is environmental issues, through arts and crafts. These lessons include, teaching keiki about Hawai'is recycling issue and how we don't have a recycling plant. I want to teach them about how we can recycle or reuse old shirts, making them into forever lei. And each lesson will have a little note attached, so that the kids will remember what the made and why they made it. We'll conduct other lessons like, Ahupua'a system group projects, emphasizing water, and instead of bringing the project home, it'll stay in the class as a reminder of what they learned. Before each lesson, we will teach them about each issue and how each craft relates to that issue. All in hopes of bringing knowledge to these children, inspiring them to take action. 

We plan to plant and fertilize kalo and will renovate our lo'i's to improve the design and water flow. We'll also harvest kalo to produce kulolo. The kalo we harvested this past school year in our freezers will be used in the ku'i days we will plan and host in order to give space for our community to bond and connect over culture and kalo. In our mamaki raised beds we're going to out plant food crops as well as fertilize and harvest them later in the year to pickle them for ourselves and for sales. We plan on making our fertilizers this year with KNF methods. We will be doing a lot of research, and we plan on sharing our research, experiences, and aloha on our Instagram to learn more digital marketing strategies and to document our senior year. 

Malama Hawai'i's Animals, was my brother's brainchild and a video game, created in cooperation with NOAA that would teach the user (tourists & locals) about how to interact and protect Hawaii's Animals. After playing the video game, the user learns specific, expert-provided information about the animal and the user's role in protecting the various species, specifically how far away to stay from the animal, how to help it thrive, and who to contact if the animal is in danger or distress. 

My legacy project is a continuation of my brother's project, but with my own spin to get the community involved. I will start with a comprehensive website that I will create and code, with its main goal being to protect Hawai’i’s animals through education (the website & video game), by involving the community (businesses & locals), and by sharing it with students at my school.

My project's purpose is to create a water wheel in the Palolo stream to harness energy, promote sustainability, and educate students on water conservation and agricultural science through hands-on learning. The creation of this water wheel could be used as a informational tool for students to learn about water conservation and also how to save energy. The wheel would also be another way to help Saint Louis School generate power. 

My idea for Pōlani Hawai'i is to promote phthalate-free products and gather support for environmental causes such as environmental and marine pollution, alongside how we can prevent it by using these alternative products that do not include phthalate in them. Most of these products are either hand soap, perfumes, packaging, and other stuff related to plastic. Used to add strength to plastic, most people use it without considering the negatives that this chemical will have towards living organisms. Pōlani will also be branched out to the local community in order to allow voluntary support every so often -- we can record vlogs for reporting to HYSC and social media to promote the idea overall, and help to raise the support of this project being completed. As we search through regulations and guidelines for setting up a booth, we will find where is the best fit area to set up a booth to advocate and promote samples for educational purposes. For invasive species, we will have clean-up days to contribute to helping the island during progress of our project in-between.

If feedback is received well, we can create our own soap design and manufacture it if provided with experts. We can record vlogs for reporting to HYSC and social media to promote the idea overall, and help to raise the support of this project being completed. I would love to do interactive activities, such as fitting in exploration and artistic activities to interact with the community throughout points of the project's timeline. A website will be created for progress updates, posts, and donations to be made to Pōlani Hawai'i if people are willing to help out somewhere this year. All reviews from the survey website and physical project will be recorded for statistics that will present research from the 2024-2025 timeline, finalizing all findings, data, and general conclusions from the project overall. At the end of the project, all donations from the website and others will be donated towards a local charity of the community's choice for an environmental cause to extend research for relief efforts and the support of sustainability in the Hawaiian ecosystem.

The project will involve research & development related to propagation of native species and elimination of invasive species. First, I will research Hawaiian plants and trees in need of revival. I will dive deep into learning more about Hawaiian tradition of seed collection and sharing. Then, a research will be launched into identifying invasive species on Oahu that may be easily converted into fertilizer. As a part of my development work, I will create a "seed bomb kits with informational videos". 

For our project, we are going to use the left over milk from our school cafeteria to make soap bars. This process is done by freezing the milk and mixing it slowly with lye. Then the essential oil and melted fats, coconut oil and olive oil, are mixed in. We place the well mixed blend into silicone molds to set for two weeks. The finished and packaged soap bars will be donated to organizations (IHS | Institute for Human Services & The Radical Hale) that provide aid for the homeless. 

We are to investigate how much invasive species affect our streams. The test site will be Waimano ridge trail stream. We are conducting population surveys comparing the amount of invasive species we catch compared to the native species. We will also measure size of the organisms we catch, take ph to see if areas where there is more invasive species have higher ph then one does not have that much invasive species. We will also do suspended solids tests to measure turbidity. 

Our after-school program connects kids ages 5-14 with climate change solutions through hands-on work in their own backyard. Moving beyond textbooks, students tackle real environmental projects - pulling invasive mangroves, learning to spot native and introduced species, and exploring marine life through water sampling at different depths. While our younger students get their hands dirty in the field, high school students dive into policy work, tracking environmental bills during the legislative session. In partnership with local nonprofits and environmental experts, we study pressing issues from forest bird extinction to coral reef decline. Looking to traditional Hawaiian practices while facing modern environmental challenges, we show students that caring for our ʻāina spans past, present, and future.