{"id":89387,"date":"2019-01-09T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89387"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T02:58:20","slug":"maunakea-scholars-dual-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/09\/maunakea-scholars-dual-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa Academy teams up with Maunakea Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island Maunakea Scholars from Waiākea and Honokaʻa<\/span> High Schools have the opportunity to earn dual credit at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> this semester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A first-of-its-kind partnership between the Maunakea Scholars program<\/a> and the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s Mānoa Academy<\/a> is providing high school students with real-life STEM<\/abbr> learning experiences beyond the classroom with the most scientifically productive telescopes in the world.<\/p>\n

Pairing collegiate-level learning with research opportunities for high school students, this partnership creates dual-credit pathways from high school to college for students.<\/p>\n

The partnership will provide students at two Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island public high schools with an opportunity to earn college credit in an entry-level astronomy class.<\/p>\n

“We are thrilled to partner with Maunakea Scholars and have enjoyed the process of developing an online pilot to serve students at Waiākea and Honokaʻa<\/span> High Schools,” said Wendi Vincent<\/strong>, M\u0101noa Academy director. “We look forward to expanding this pilot in future semesters and advancing academy offerings statewide.”<\/p>\n

The pilot program launched in the spring 2019 semester.<\/p>\n

“Our mission is to prepare Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> youth for their future beyond graduation by offering authentic learning opportunities,” said Mary Beth Laychak, Canada-France-Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Telescope<\/a> outreach program manager. “We\u2019re cultivating student scientists who will become the next generation of local engineers, technicians and astronomers who will operate and perform research with the Maunakea Observatories in the years to come.”<\/p>\n

The Maunakea Scholars program is a partnership with the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a>,<\/span> Maunakea Observatories<\/a> and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Department of Education<\/a>. The program allows chosen high school students observation work time with the telescopes that astronomers from around the world covet.<\/p>\n

M\u0101noa Academy, which is administered through the College of Social Sciences<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>, allows eligible high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to take college-level courses and earn both college and high school credits simultaneously. Accepted M\u0101noa Academy students receive provisional admission to UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n

Download the news release<\/a> more about the new program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pairing collegiate-level learning with research opportunities for high school students, the Maunakea Scholars program and Mānoa Academy partnership creates dual-credit pathways from high school to college for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[301,659,1347,305,9,947],"class_list":["post-89387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-maunakea","tag-maunakea-scholars","tag-office-of-mauna-kea-management","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89387","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=89387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89395,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89387\/revisions\/89395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}