Category: Education

Aloha! I am Sydney Millerd and I am a new social media intern at Purple Maiʻa for the summer. I am from Waipahu and was born and raised here on

Aloha! Iʻm Jess Manapul, the newest intern to join Purple Maiʻa. I was born in Guam, but I spent the first few years of my life in the Philippines before

We’ve known for a long time that Hawaiʻi’s dependence on tourism and military defense is not sustainable. From the under-valued hospitality worker to the leaky tanks of jet fuel just

Being chosen to attend Nalukai Academy is one of the best things that has ever happened to me in my life. Nalukai is a fully scholarshipped ten day entrepreneurship camp

Hi, my name is Kylyn Fernandez and I worked with Purple Maʻia, Maui Ocean Center, Kamehameha Schools and AlgorithmHub Inc. this past summer as a Data Scientist Intern. I am

As the 2016-2017 school year comes to a close, all of our students at 9 locations have made tremendous progress. Whether they have learned how to build websites, games, design

Our staff has been doing some reading and discussion lately. We’ve been taking our time through Paul Tough’s Helping Children Succeed, which, amazingly, is available in full online. Tough highlights insights about teaching that

Aloha friends, this is Kelsey. Last month I had the privilege of attending the first two days of this year’s Ethnomathematics and STEM Institute. None of our instructors could attend this

This post is the next in Kelsey’s ongoing reflections on the Ethnomathematics and STEM Institute, in which she is participating. At Purple Maiʻa we (or at least I) often struggle with

As this year’s Ethnomathematics and STEM Institute continues, we’ve progressed into considering the themes of Community and Laulima. At last month’s workshop we spent the first part of the day learning about