The Adventure Scouts Hawaii

Friends of Adventure Events: 

September 2025 New Chess/Math Club

Big Island Climbing Gym

Past Events: Theatre in the Park

Happy New Year! Getting Started Small with a: 

Positive and Empowering Theatre/Improv/Comedy Workshop/Club

Current Location: Lilalokalani Gardens by the Tori Gate (Ner Bathroom Area) Hilo, Hi.

Rules: 1. Bring a Kind/Positive Attitude, Water, and Whatever Costumes/Props You Prefer.

2. This is a safe space for neurodivergent children, neuro-typical children are welcome as well, but there will be 0 tolerance for repeated/ongoing bullying (either children or parents) in what is created to be a safe place to nurture self-expression.

3. This is a child-friendly environment please refrain from drinking, smoking, medicating around the children as per park regulations and to show presence and respect to the volunteers and instructors (no discrimination of those activities, that is simply not the focus of this time, and detracts from our staff being able to provide the activities for the children in a way that enables us to receive funding and public support).

Martial Arts - Karate  Returning in August!

Location: TBD Based on Participants Registration, this is a free service, but registration is required as well as completion of the safety waiver, email adventurescoutshawaii@gmail.com with subject: "Karate Registration" and preferred place and the waiver will be sent by email with further information. The public park most accessible to the most actively registered participants will likely be utilized as our starting location.

Thank you all for your patience and looking forward to starting more activities throughout the year as we reorganize into our new direction of being a safe space for kids to engage in clear and beneficial activities together! 

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Climbing 101 Learn the Belay

This is the type of belay equipment we are starting to use, please familiarize yourself with this technique.

It Takes a Village to Build a Shire

This 'Hobbit'-inspired tiny home village has already made $120k on Airbnb, our future growth and financial plan is to have both a playground/learning lab/scout community center and mini farm, but also an adjacent Tiny Home Village which can fund our other projects. Our timeline is to finish our federal paperwork this year, seek grants to get property within five years, and build our first areas within ten years.

Kūlia  - Celebrate Failure to Strive for the Summit

(Thank you Russell Brunson)

Some of us have kids that are overly hard on themselves over little learning mistakes, as someone who was a perfectionist for a long time I find the search for perfection will get in the way of excellence or life balance too often. I'm hoping we can become a community that embraces failure and the Growth Mindset (Kūlia, Kazien, Kung Fu). It's not enough to tell kids it's okay to fail, we have to show them we embrace our own failures, because they will mostly do as we do, not as we say. Usually I don't make any parenting recommendations, but in this, I believe would be good for all of us to stand together, because it's going against the tradition of penalizing learning errors that has stood in place for so long. John Holt wrote a helpful book about it called "Learning All the Time" he describes how to deal with mistakes, there is essentially "that's right" and "good try" that's wrong, you didn't get it right, there is "this is hard, would you like to work on it together" you can't do it, you are wrong... John Holt wrote this book after a life time of teaching and condensed his life's work into it, since then John Medina has done neuroscience that provides evidence of why John Holt's findings are true. 

Two famous poems come to mind describing the Growth Mindset, one Theodore Roosevelt's speech "The Man In the Arena" and also "Invictus" by Ernest Henley.

Any suggestions and examples about what we can do as parents to show that we (really) celebrate failure are welcome I will compile them eventually into an article for our Patreon subscribers. Our Patreon account is fully working so if you do run into people who want to support us that is a good way with a $1 and $10 level so kids can donate if they want to be involved (but of course it's not required).

"In the Arena"

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” 

-Theodore Roosevelt

(Thank you Gavin Aung Than)

"Invictus"

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

- Ernest Henley

Knot That Again

This Japanese Square Lashing is a nice way to bind two poles, it is very helpful for garden purposes and even though a little trickier I prefer it to the standard square lashing because it looks intentional and can be left in place with a certain amount of elegance the square lashing lacks. Video tutorial.

Using a Square Lashing you can bind together a handsome Scout Frame for your favorite scout photos and ribbons. This frame was made by Eugene in Texas who sells wood art as "DriftwoodCraftEugene" on Etsy.

Once you know the Japanese Square Lashing you can use it for a kid's fence, a garden fence or a scout perimeter fence, it kind of disappears into the scenery and you can add style by choosing either disappearing or contrasting twine/rope colors. "Anne of All Trades" shows how to use this lashing for a tomato cage.

Tota World History 

Email adventurescoutshawaii@gmail.com to add quotes for January.

Scoutdance Film Making Challenge

Watch this video to get some ideas about story boarding, then complete at least one page of story boarding and shoot your raw footage. You can have a helper to help with video editing to add effects, backgrounds or music or compose your own original songs to go with your movie.

This is a good example of a short film that tells a story and takes the viewer on an emotional ride in just a few minutes.

Math Decathlon First Round - Addition, Multiplication, Fractions

Speaking of pizza, the best pizza dough recipe I've tried. 🍕 

And the best blueberry muffin recipe. 🔵

Neuroscience Basics for Anxiety

Lately, in my family, we have been dealing with spelling anxiety, this is a little video about how the brain works that I felt was helpful with my family when my child is struggling with anxiety related to self-doubt. 

One Drop of Seawater - Microbiology Spotlight

We all know pond water is teeming with life, but the ocean water is full of life as well, this photo is "a real seawater drop magnified 25x, showing bacteria, larvae, zooplankton & worms." * 

Baking with Yeast - Microbiology Spotlight

Yeast are one of the most approachable microbiology bridges, watching the foam rise on properly activated yeast (in warm milk or water) is a good starting off point to explain there really is small life we can't see, such as the germs we brush off our teeth, or in the ocean water, thus hand washing and teeth brushing are actually to get extra small life off our bodies when we have too much... 

Computers 101

What are they? Where did they come from? How do they work?

A pretty fun introduction with a good history of computer and overview of what coding is.

Internet Safety for Kids 

A great starter for all kids using the internet independently.

Cyber Security 101

A short intro to cyber security for older kids and link to related games.

Summer Coding Camp Challenge

START HERE (YOUTUBE):

You can learn coding at home at any age with these fun songs that break down the core concepts:

Younger Learners: If you can use a mouse you can learn coding with Lego's BitsNBricks it moves a robot on a maze using loops and movement commands.

Mid Level Learners: Grasshopper is fun for students that can read, it's available on mobile or desktop and teaches Java instead of just block coding.

Older Learners: Udacity offers a free Python course, Python is the main game creation language right now. The Python course relies on somewhat difficult math, so it is rather challenging but not impossible. I am most the way through this course right now.

Code.org : Attempts to have courses for all levels, but I haven't been through the courses yet.

Java makes up 80% of the internet, Python is the biggest game language and block coding is a good start to learning other languages from, Python relies heavily on typing and advanced math, Java is much less typing and intermediate math and block coding is made for people who don't type or read to be able to practice.

I'm sure we will have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for the summer, not sure if rewards will be in Robux or cash or how much they will be yet, but any curriculum or book choices will be added up by points to decide the winners. 

Environmental Challenge

Music Challenge 

Try a prodigies music lesson from home, they have singing, ukulele, piano, and more.

Via either Youtube Playlist or Website-App

Join us for music lessons or watch at home, from Rob Young another Hawaiian Educator!

Check out the app and website, lots of free videos on Youtube.

Science for all. Learning for all. Fun for all. 

Explore more science and math challenges on the science page and math pages.

Adventure Scout Spring Challenge: Spot a whale! 

Thank You to Our Parents/Grand Parents/Volunteers

for Help - Supplies - Love and Support! 

Thank you to our helpful volunteer support!

Current Directors

Want to post your event pictures, artwork, event photos/video here (anonymously no names posted - nicknames ok) or post a recognition for someone in our group? Suggest new science, math, scouting, or art challenges? 

If so please email your media or suggestions to: adventurescoutshawaii@gmail.com