{"id":194525,"date":"2024-03-27T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=194525"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:44:47","slug":"pace-meijo-university-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/27\/pace-meijo-university-program\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> innovation students mentor Japanese students in solving complex Hawai\u02bbi issues"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-group.jpg\" alt=\"people smiling for a photo\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-194526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-group.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-group-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-group-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Haum\u0101na (students) from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/pace.shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship<\/a> (<abbr>PACE<\/abbr>) participated in the inaugural <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> X Very50 Social Entrepreneurship Program, serving as <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> Cross-Cultural Ambassadors and collaborating with students from Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, to identify local challenges in our <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> community, analyze the challenges and come up with implementable solutions. Some of the issues included:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-student-presenting-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"person standing and presenting to a group of people\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-194529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-student-presenting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-student-presenting-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-student-presenting.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a beach advisory mobile app to show which beaches are safe and general information about a particular beach<\/li>\n<li>Reducing plastic waste to encourage people to recycle bottle caps to be repurposed for other items like asphalt. A bottle cap recycling station was created at the Walter Dods, <abbr title=\"Junior\">Jr<\/abbr>. <abbr title=\"Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs\">RISE<\/abbr> Center.<\/li>\n<li>Since surfing is not always for beginners, creating educational opportunities or having a  designated area for beginner surfers in Waik\u012bk\u012b would help<\/li>\n<li>For tourists with young children, developing a sled type device to assist parents with pushing strollers on the beach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> Cross-Cultural Ambassadors and the Meijo students worked together to conduct field research and interviews, and develop solutions and prototypes during many late-night sessions at the Walter Dods, <abbr>Jr<\/abbr>. <abbr>RISE<\/abbr> Center. The <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> X Very50 Social Entrepreneurship Program was an intensive one-week program that culminated with a showcase event at the <abbr>RISE<\/abbr> Center with each team presenting about their journey from challenge identification to innovative solution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-students-group-work-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people sitting at a table\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-194527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-students-group-work-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-students-group-work-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/manoa-shidler-pace-meijo-university-students-group-work.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was really interesting to hear a variety of different perspectives from the international students on what they believed were problems here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8212;hearing things that I would have never thought about prior to working with them,&rdquo; said <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> student Rochelle Jokura. &ldquo;I also felt it was a good opportunity for me to sort of take a leadership-like role as they relied on me to take them around <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, and for providing suggestions for their project.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ryosuke Sugaya, co-founder and <abbr>CEO<\/abbr> of Very50, a social enterprise accelerator based in Tokyo, led the program for the Meijo University students and brought this opportunity to <abbr>PACE<\/abbr>. Very50 provides &ldquo;on the ground&rdquo; experiences for students, which aim to foster collaboration and tackle real social challenges in Asia-focused regions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Very50\u2019s program aligns with <abbr>PACE<\/abbr>\u2019s mission of educating innovative problem-solvers,&rdquo; said Sandra Fujiyama, executive director of <abbr>PACE<\/abbr>. &ldquo;Through this collaboration with Ryosuke and Very50, our <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> Cross-Cultural Ambassadors benefited from the unique educational opportunity offered by Very50, working alongside the Meijo University students to tackle real-world challenges and transforming into innovative-problem solvers in the process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> Cross-Cultural Ambassadors involved were Jokura, Matthew Andres, Noah deMers, A\u2019Marie Paraso, Sho Matsumoto, Ryan Nishizaki and Abigail Vanblaricom-Nutt. <a href=\"https:\/\/pace.shidler.hawaii.edu\/leaders\/\"><abbr>PACE<\/abbr> Leader<\/a> Shota Ichitaku spearheaded this collaboration on behalf of <abbr>PACE<\/abbr>, taking the lead on organizing the effort with Sugaya and Very50, with assistance from Aimie Katayama.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>PACE<\/abbr> is housed in the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the assistance of the <abbr>PACE<\/abbr> students, they conducted field research and interviews, and developed solutions and prototypes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[498,734,1505,1466,425,1593,146,9],"class_list":["post-194525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-pacific-asian-center-for-entrepreneurship","tag-rise","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194525","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=194525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194715,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194525\/revisions\/194715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}