{"id":60337,"date":"2017-05-16T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=60337"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:37:22","slug":"make-the-ala-wai-awesome-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/16\/make-the-ala-wai-awesome-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Ala Wai Awesome Student Design Challenge finalists selected"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/system-ala-wai-design-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Ala Wai\" width=\"620\" height=\"278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/system-ala-wai-design-challenge.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/system-ala-wai-design-challenge-260x117.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The finalists for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawaichallenge.org\/\">Make the Ala Wai Awesome Student Design Challenge<\/a> have been selected. The international challenge is to rehabilitate a critical <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> watershed that contains one of the nation&#8217;s most polluted bodies of water. Make the Ala Wai Awesome is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> and includes $10,000 in total prize money.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are excited about the innovative ideas that the challenge has sparked,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/david-lassner\/\">David Lassner<\/a><\/strong>. &ldquo;The entries demonstrated that students are more than willing and able to collaboratively address the challenges before us all with creative, holistic and thoughtful system designs that integrate modern concepts with traditional knowledge to show the way to a brighter future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157683774569636\/\">View finalists selected<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157682755174296\">View all entries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty representing all ten campuses gathered to commence the final round of judging, and to kick off an interdisciplinary conference focused on Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibility and solving the <a href=\"http:\/\/sencerhawaii.com\/\">Grand Challenges of Water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Special thanks also to all the of the jurors who participated in the first round of judging, representing key stakeholders throughout the Ala Wai Watershed,&rdquo; said <strong>Matthew K. Lynch<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> System sustainability coordinator<\/a>. &ldquo;The Ala Wai Challenge highlights the importance of integrated solutions that will help <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> achieve the 2030 statewide Aloha + Challenge sustainability goals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The challenge provided the great opportunity to engage youth and students in problems that government, community and professionals have struggled to address,&rdquo; said <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/matthew-gonser-aicp\">Matthew Gonser<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Sea Grant College Program<\/a> extension faculty. &ldquo;As a research, education and extension unit of the university, this platform really accelerated our ability to extend information to a broader audience and in an area we&#8217;ve been engaged in for several years&#8212;the interest and participation in the challenge is encouraging for a critical watershed, which also has lessons to share with other watersheds across <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More about the Make the Ala Wai Awesome challenge<\/h2>\n<p>First place winners will be awarded across four categories and announced in June at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/world-youth-congress-to-be-held-at-the-university-of-hawaii-in-2017\/\">World Youth Congress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/summit\/\">M&#257;lama Honua Summit<\/a> to celebrate the return of H&#333;k&#363;le&#699;a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary (K&#8211;5): $1,000<\/li>\n<li>Middle\/Intermediate (6&#8211;8): $2,000<\/li>\n<li>High School (9&#8211;12): $3,000<\/li>\n<li>College\/University: $4,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News stories<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/10\/make-the-ala-wai-awesome-challenge-now-accepting-applications\/\"><em>Make the Ala Wai Awesome challenge now accepting applications<\/em><\/a>, January 10, 2017<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/06\/students-around-the-world-challenged-to-make-the-ala-wai-awesome\/\"><em>Students around the world challenged to Make the Ala Wai Awesome<\/em><\/a>, September 6, 2016 <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/03\/ala-wai-elementary-science-projects\/\"><em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> brightens future at local elementary school<\/em><\/a>, May 3, 2017 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international challenge includes $10,000 in total prize money and first place winners will be announced in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":60384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1480,1466,1038,73,947],"class_list":["post-60337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/system-ala-wai-design-challenge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337","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=60337"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77381,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337\/revisions\/77381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}