  {"id":205122,"date":"2024-10-16T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=205122"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:37:35","slug":"discovery-fair-at-leeward-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/16\/discovery-fair-at-leeward-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Fair at Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: Bigger and better than ever"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-1.jpg\" alt=\"fish printing\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College\u2019s<\/a> annual family fun fair is growing! The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/discoveryfair\/\">34th annual Discovery Fair<\/a> will be held on Saturday, November 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the <span aria-label=\"Puuloa\">Pu&#699;uloa<\/span> (Pearl City) campus, with more educational activities for the keiki and more <span aria-label=\"ono\">&#699;ono<\/span> food than in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery Fair activities, hosted by Leeward\u2019s faculty and staff, are designed to pique the interests of young minds and engage them in physical and mental games that promote learning.<\/p>\n<p>Besides long-time favorites like Quicksand Goo, Slime Time and Phun with Physics, newer activities include voyaging and navigation, Beetle Battleship, paper airplane races, operating basic machinery and using gummi Bears to make fuel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-205126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-3-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There will be several cultural activities, including Hawaiian makahiki games, <span aria-label=\"ulu\">&#699;ulu<\/span> maika (rolling stone disks), h&#363; (Hawaiian spinner top) and k&#333;nane (board game), making your own Filipino star (parol), and creating Korean wooden pendants and bracelets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every year we have new members of our faculty and staff who join our <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span>,&rdquo; said Jenny Watada, faculty co-chair of Discovery Fair. &ldquo;They bring new ideas and experiences to share through their activities and the kids love it!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fair attendees can enjoy food from local vendors, including: Happy Belly Eatery, HI Cravings, Kona Ice, Krazy Dogs, Olay\u2019s Thai Lao Cuisine, Paradise Kettle Corn, Pop Culture Artisan Pops, Simply Ono and Subway. Leeward\u2019s Culinary Arts Program will also host Ala <span aria-label=\"Ike\">&#699;Ike<\/span> Grill, serving up burgers, hot dogs and shave ice.<\/p>\n<p>102.7 Da Bomb will DJ and give away prizes, while Balloon Monsoon and Mr. O the Magician (Harvey Ouchi) provide entertainment throughout the day. Ouchi is also a proud alumnus from Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>\u2019s first graduating class in 1970!<\/p>\n<p>Discovery Fair entry, parking and all educational activities are free.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/discoveryfair\/\">Discovery Fair website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-2.jpg\" alt=\"kids playing a fishing game\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 34th annual Discovery Fair will be held on Saturday, November 2 at the <span aria-label=\"Puuloa\">Pu&#699;uloa<\/span> (Pearl City) campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[65,71],"class_list":["post-205122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-leeward-community-college","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\/205122","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=205122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205127,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205122\/revisions\/205127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}