A team of UH Hilo, Arizona State and local high school students won top honors in the student category at the annual Hawaiʻi Business Plan (HIplan) competition.
Three students—Allison Dupre, Diamond Mundy and Jacinda Lee Angelsberg—who each won a $500 prize, were recognized at an event celebrating UH Hilo’s diversity.
UH Mānoa Chinese Language Flagship Program scholars Mia Porter and Leon Qu from will compete in the national Hack The Language Flagship event in Washington, D.C.
The program is now accepting applications for spring 2019 for 20 full-time, paid internships at the U.S. Congress, offices of the Hawaiʻi Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Hawaiʻi Judicial system and the Hawaiʻi State Legislature.
Kapiʻolani CC won the inaugural University of Hawaiʻi Culinary Institute of the Pacific Brewing Future Minds Statewide Competition and the $9,000 first prize.
JiaJie He and Yunmi Kim are the only U.S. award recipients of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese government’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Kapiʻolani CC student and culinary arts major Eunice Yamada was awarded the Council on International Exchange’s Global Scholar grant to study in Europe.