{"id":61522,"date":"2017-06-18T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61522"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T00:50:33","slug":"make-the-ala-wai-awesome-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/18\/make-the-ala-wai-awesome-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Ala Wai Awesome winners announced"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SiJlvtqNOI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Noelani Elementary School and <span aria-label=\"Iolani\">&#699;Iolani<\/span> School are among the winners in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s Make the Ala Wai Awesome challenge. Arizona State University took the overall prize.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the international student design competition were announced at the opening ceremony of the World Youth Congress and was part of the celebration to welcome the voyaging canoe <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> home from her worldwide voyage. Out of the 40-plus entries received, the five winners did the best job of meeting the challenge to rehabilitate a critical <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> watershed that contains one of the nation\u2019s most polluted bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The students\u2019 ideas for collaboratively addressing the challenges before us are impressive,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/david-lassner\/\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;Congratulations to all of the winners. It\u2019s exciting to see the innovation that this challenge has sparked, and the momentum that is being created to move <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> towards a more sustainable future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A design team of senior students from the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering won an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recognizing &ldquo;excellence in civil engineering&rdquo; for their entry to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawaichallenge.org\/\">Make the Ala Wai Awesome Student Design Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The international student design challenge was launched by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Conference in September 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61526\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-noelani-1.jpg\" alt=\"drawing of Ala Wai watershed ecosystem restoration with before and after effects\" width=\"620\" height=\"352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-noelani-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-noelani-1-260x148.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noelani&#8217;s Make the Ala Wai Awesome entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Make the Ala Wai Awesome Winners:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Noelani Elementary School<\/strong><br \/>\nK&#8211;5 Winner ($1,000)<br \/>\nNumber of students on design team: 24<\/p>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Iolani\">&#699;Iolani<\/span> Middle School<\/strong><br \/>\nIntermediate Winner ($2,000)<br \/>\nNumber of students on design team: 3<\/p>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Iolani\">&#699;Iolani<\/span> High School <\/strong><br \/>\nHigh School Winner ($3,000)<br \/>\nNumber of students on design team: 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arizona State University*<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege Winner ($4,500)<br \/>\nFaculty Advisor: Paul Coseo, Darren Petrucci and Chingwen Cheng <br \/>\nNumber of students on design team: 8<br \/>\n<em>*also won <abbr title=\"American Society of Landscape Architects\">ASLA<\/abbr> award for &ldquo;Excellence in Landscape Architecture&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><abbr>ASCE<\/abbr> Winner ($1,000): <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering*<\/strong><br \/>\nFaculty Advisor: Roger Babcock, College of Engineering<br \/>\nNumber of students on design team: 4<br \/>\n<em>*won <abbr>ASCE<\/abbr> award for &ldquo;Excellence in Civil Engineering&rdquo;<\/em><\/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>&ldquo;Mahalo to all the of the jurors who participated, and special thanks to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> SeaGrant, Precovery Labs and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Green Growth for their work to help us develop and implement the competition,&rdquo; said <strong>Matthew K. Lynch<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> System sustainability coordinator<\/a>. &ldquo;The winning designs of the Ala Wai Challenge highlight how the meeting of wisdoms between ancestral knowledge and modern sciences are essential to creating the integrated solutions that are needed to solve the complex challenges of sustainability and resilience that our communities face today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Make the Ala Wai Awesome Student Design Challenge is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiigreengrowth.org\/aloha-challenge\">Aloha + Challenge<\/a>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s statewide commitment to achieve six integrated sustainability goals by 2030 for clean energy, local food, natural resource management, solid waste, smart sustainable communities and green education and workforce. Progress on the six goals is measured on the Aloha + Challenge Dashboard, <a href=\"http:\/\/dashboard.hawaii.gov\/aloha-challenge\">which can be viewed online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News stories<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/16\/make-the-ala-wai-awesome-finalists\/\"><em>Make the Ala Wai Awesome Student Design Challenge finalists selected<\/em><\/a>, May 16, 2017 <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 <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 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61525\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-winner.jpg\" alt=\"computer illustration of Ala Wai before and after modifications\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-winner.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/system-alawai-winner-260x138.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arizona State University&#8217;s Make the Ala Wai Awesome entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners included Noelani Elementary School, &#699;Iolani School, Arizona State University and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1038,73,947,56],"class_list":["post-61522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61522","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=61522"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77137,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61522\/revisions\/77137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}