  {"id":220989,"date":"2025-08-27T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=220989"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:00:13","slug":"image-of-the-week-piko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/27\/image-of-the-week-piko\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Week: Piko"},"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\/2025\/08\/IMAGE-kauai-piko.jpg\" alt=\"Two people putting lei on an ahu\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMAGE-kauai-piko.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMAGE-kauai-piko-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMAGE-kauai-piko-130x87.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s <em><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> Image of the Week is from <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> opened the fall 2025 semester with a Piko ceremony at the Ahu. Members of the community came together to set some positive intentions for the new academic year!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous Images<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/20\/image-of-the-week-auw-kickoff\/\"><abbr>AUW<\/abbr> kickoff<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/image-of-the-week-alumni-makers\/\">Alumni Makers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/image-of-the-week-rent-kauai\/\"><em>RENT<\/em> on <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/30\/image-of-the-week-green-onions\/\">Green Onions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/23\/image-of-the-week-loi\/\"><span aria-label=\"loi\">Lo&#699;i<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/image-of-the-week\/\">All Images of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Send us your image!<\/h2>\n<p>Want to get in on the action? The next <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> Image of the Week could be yours! Submit a photo, drawing, painting, digital illustration of a project you are working on, a moment from a field research outing or a beautiful and\/or interesting shot of a scene on your campus. It could be a class visit during which you see an eye-catching object or scene.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/10JVw_hAgA6Ikrybcg8GLJnJ5bvVLLXkV99iTn4Up4IA\/edit?ts=62bcae95\"><strong>Send your image using a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> email address<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please include a brief description of the image and its connection to your campus, class assignment or other <abbr>UH<\/abbr> connection. By submitting your image, you are giving <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> permission to publish your photo on the <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> website and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> social media accounts. The image must be your original work, and anyone featured in your image needs to give consent to its publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s image is from <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":220983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,62,1547,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-220989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-image-of-the-week","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMAGE-kauai-piko-horiz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220989","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=220989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221035,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220989\/revisions\/221035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}