When I first got the email from Alec Wagner three months ago that I would possibly be a fellow, everything felt relatively normal and life didn’t feel like it was
Purple Prize documentarian, Kalei Akau shares part two of her reflections from the 2019 Purple Prize . Please read part one, “Piko ʻAumakua: Building Empathy & Forging Roots” first. Piko ʻiewe ʻIewe
On a late Wednesday afternoon about one year ago, I sat down with Donavan Kealoha, Kelsey Amos and Alec Wagner at a downtown Honolulu conference room nervous but mostly excited
The challenge of climate change has always been in the back of our minds at the Purple Prize, but this year it feels more urgent. Maybe it’s because our Director,
At the Purple Prize we are trying to socialize a (k)new way of doing innovation that we feel is better for us in Hawaiʻi, and better for the world. We
Now safely a month out from the conclusion of the 2017 Purple Prize, it’s time for one last round of Mahalos to everyone who made this year’s competition possible. We’ve
Congratulations to the winners and all the competing teams in this year’s 2017 Purple Prize! We are so proud to share this impressive list of working projects and aspirations. In-Flight
Our co-founder Donavan has taught me to work hard and rest hard, and today has been a hard resting day after a long week. It was the DOE fall break,
In ecologically balanced societies, culturally-embedded technologies enhance and serve sustainable, living systems that provide health and well-being for ʻāina and people, now and into the future. For example the pre-contact
Aloha mai! For this post we asked one of our instructors, David, to write about demo day. He teaches on Maui and was on the team Kukui Hele Pō. David
