{"id":106820,"date":"2019-11-26T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=106820"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:58:40","slug":"new-leeward-ptk-members-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/26\/new-leeward-ptk-members-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeward welcomes new honor society members"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_106810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106810\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-1.jpg\" alt=\"p t k inductees\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest Phi Theta Kappa inductees of Leeward Community College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twelve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a> students were inducted into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptk.org\/\">Phi Theta Kappa<\/a> (<abbr>PTK<\/abbr>) Alpha Lambda Chapter on November 23. Faculty Advisor, <strong>Michael Bauer<\/strong> and co-advisor <strong>Allan Nebrija<\/strong>, led the inductees in the oath and welcomed all into the honor society alongside Chancellor <strong>Carlos Pe&#241;aloza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The newest members of Leeward\u2019s <abbr>PTK<\/abbr> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Merriam Cook Conte<\/strong>, who plans to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in Hawaiian and indigenous health and healing at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tara Hartley<\/strong> who will transfer to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa next year where she\u2019ll work toward a double major in psychology and social work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tatiana Lee<\/strong>, an elementary education major that wants to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in teacher education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Lewis<\/strong> whose educational goal is to earn a master\u2019s degree in human resources management.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaumakaonalani &ldquo;Maka&rdquo; Medeiros<\/strong>, who plans on earning her bachelor\u2019s degree with a concentration in sustainable community food systems at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Royce Nagai<\/strong>, a psychology and anthropology graduate from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> who is currently fulfilling his prerequisite classes at Leeward.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tierry Roboman<\/strong>, a double major in business technology and liberal arts who wishes to own her own business one day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reina Sepulveda<\/strong>, an aspiring registered nurse specializing in geriatrics who is completing her prerequisite courses for the nursing program at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katrina Spencer<\/strong> who will pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in creative media with a minor in Japanese.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jostine Stanley<\/strong> who plans to obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christine Vanterpool<\/strong>, the first in her family to finish college, who intends to pursue a degree in psychology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weiqi Wang<\/strong>, a freshman at <span aria-label=\"Waianae\">Wai&#699;anae<\/span> Moku who wants to earn a bachelor&#8217;s degree in business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society of two-year colleges, whose mission is to recognize academic achievement of college students and to provide opportunities for them to grow as scholars and leaders. With more than 1,250 chapters, <abbr>PTK<\/abbr> membership provides members with access to transfer scholarships to more than 600 senior colleges, automatic nomination to the prestigious National Dean\u2019s List and a myriad of other advantages and recognition opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kathleen Cabral<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106811\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-2.jpg\" alt=\"students lighting candles\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leeward-ptk-2019-inductees-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr>PTK<\/abbr> inductees during the Lighting of Candles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Leeward Community College students were inducted into Phi Theta Kappa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[65,660,71],"class_list":["post-106820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112738,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106820\/revisions\/112738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}