{"id":57830,"date":"2017-03-21T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57830"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:37:50","slug":"honolulus-phi-theta-kappa-chapter-recognized-for-outstanding-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/honolulus-phi-theta-kappa-chapter-recognized-for-outstanding-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu\u2019s Phi Theta Kappa Chapter recognized for outstanding service"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_57850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57850\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HCC-honorsociety-phithetakappa-620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"293\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HCC-honorsociety-phithetakappa-620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/HCC-honorsociety-phithetakappa-620-260x123.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s <abbr title=\"Phi Theta Kappa\">PTK<\/abbr> students with advisor, Lena Low.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Honolulu Community College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/honolulu-ptk.weebly.com\/\">Alpha Kappa Iota Chapter<\/a> walked away as big winners at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptk.org\/Home.aspx\">Pacific Region Convention of Phi Theta Kappa (<abbr>PTK<\/abbr>) International Honor Society<\/a> on March 11 at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n<h2>Awards received:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Honors in Action Project Award (project leader and writer:\u00a0<strong>Davida Aila<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Honors in Action Theme Award:\u00a0Individualism and Collectivism (project leader and writer: <strong>Davida Aila<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>College Project Award \u00a0(project leader and writer:\u00a0<strong>Steffanie Sobitz<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Distinguished Chapter Award<\/li>\n<li>Five Star Chapter Award<\/li>\n<li>Horizon Advisor Award&#8212;<strong>Jeannie Shaw<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Our Phi Theta Kappa students worked so hard work over the past year and it is nice to see their efforts recognized in such a big way,&rdquo; shares <strong>Lena Low<\/strong>, long time <abbr>PTK<\/abbr> advisor.<\/p>\n<p>The students have given back to the community by participating in numerous service projects including:\u00a0Aloha Week <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H&#333;k&#363;le&#699;a<\/span>, Â鶹´«Ã½ International Film Festival, Honolulu Harbor Cleanup and the <span aria-label=\"Loi\">Lo&#699;i<\/span> Kalo Park restoration.\u00a0They have engaged in a challenging scholarly Honors in Action Project based on their current <abbr>PTK<\/abbr> Honors Study Topic&#8212;How the World Works: Global Perspectives. The chapter&#8217;s Honors in Action Project\u00a0focused on the role Hawaiian values of Aloha\u00a0and\u00a0Welina\u00a0play in shaping how the world works.<\/p>\n<p>On March 16, the Chapter held its spring 2017\u00a0induction\u00a0ceremony\u00a0for new members in the Norman Loui Conference Center and included a special message from Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> alumni and Automotive Technology instructor, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/honoluluccblog.com\/2016\/06\/24\/honolulu-cc-alumnus-profile-robert-silva\/\">Robert Siva<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The\u00a0induction\u00a0ceremony\u00a0is a joyful celebration honoring the academic achievements of <abbr title=\"Phi Theta Kappa\">PTK<\/abbr> students.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students were recognized at the Pacific Region Convention receiving various awards for leadership, writing and project management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62,660,71],"class_list":["post-57830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-honolulu-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\/57830","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=57830"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108662,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions\/108662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}