hiki nåœ 713 aloha, i'm shisa kahaunaele, a former hikinåœ student, kamehameha schools graduate, and acommunications/political science major at the university of hawaii at manoa. for thenext half hour, we'll see some of the top hiki nåœ storiesfrom the winter quarter of the 2015-2016 school year. we'llalso see how these stories reflect the values of generation z, young people born in 1995or later. all hiki nåœ students are a part of generationz, and are quite different from their older millennialsiblings. they were raised in a post-9/11
world, never experienced life before the internet,and came of age during the great recession. a nationalsurvey showed that gen z-ers are tech savvy entrepreneurswho are very aware of the world's problems, and are looking for practical ways to solvethem. they tend to be empathetic to others, socially conscious,are not gender or age-biased, and share an affinity withsenior citizens. let's see how students reveal these qualities through their storytellingin hiki nåœ, generation z. our first story shows how people in generationz challenge traditional gender roles. for
decades, sciencewas a male-dominated field of study, but students at sacred hearts academy on oahu don't acceptthat, and offer firsthand proof that beakers andbunsen burners are not just for boys. it's actually moving around, and i have noidea either. [chuckle] they look exactly the same. meet ms. erin flynn, a passionate biologyand physics teacher at sacred hearts academy. i have some hydrochloric acid ... i was that little kid outside, running around,picking up rocks, looking for salamanders and bugs, anddigging up worms.
i just want to get us started on the nextthing so we don't run out of time. this past summer, she received the presidentialaward, one of the country's top awards for scienceteachers. [indistinct] ms. flynn was one of two teachers from hawaiito be recognized. i was having people email me saying, oh, isaw on, you know, the honolulu star-advertiser, this articlecame out that you won. and i was like, i didn't even know. the honor came with a trip to washington,d.c. and meeting the president.
so, when i came up, he said, so you must bethe other hawaii lady. and i said, yes, i am. gave a littleshout out for our school. the award might have come as a surprise toms. flynn, but not to her students. ask me again tomorrow. i wasn't surprised at all. she's a remarkableteacher. she loves what she does, and that's evident in theway that she's so passionate about biology. ms. flynn is really passionate about whatshe teaches, and that makes class very enjoyable. this one is supposed to be two-by-two-by-two,but i know right now, it's not. as a teacher, she is now nurturing that samelove of science, technology, engineering and
math, betterknown as stem, in young girls at the academy. wow, what a great opportunity to step intoa place where i can have a really huge impact on girls learningscience. because it's true, my experience in a co-ed school, the girls would tend totake the backseat and let the boys do everything, especially inlabs. so, write down your observations in your notebook.you're gonna want to come back to that later. until someone told me that the stem fieldswere mostly dominated by men, i hadn't even stopped toconsider that, because we were always so encouraged to embrace and love the study of science.
it's all thanks to her former science teacher,whose quirky ways help add some spunk to science. biology seems like it would be a tiring subject,but she made it very interesting, and she applied it to like,concepts in life. i really don't know [indistinct]. but for ms. flynn, her career as a teacherbegan with learning many lessons of her own. in my first year of teaching, i had studentswho had gained a reputation in previous years for getting rid oftheir science teachers. each night, i would go home and i would think, is this the rightcareer choice? did i do the right thing? am i in the rightfield? and i'd say, okay, well, i need to
stick it out and goback tomorrow, and show them that i'm still here. [indistinct] wear gloves. despite the challenges, ms. flynn's missioncontinues to be inspiring her students to become lifelonglearners. nine-by-two-by-two. [chuckle] i'm pursuing a bachelor's degree in nursingat george mason university in virginia. we learned fromher example the way that she respected all of her students.
my hope for the girls who leave my class isthat they go out into the world, wanting to learn about whatthey see around them. it's this hope that will continue to shinebrighter than any plaque or medal. this is kailanianna ablogfrom sacred hearts academy, for hiki nåœ. it has been said that members of generationz have entrepreneurship in their dna. the following storyhappens to be about a millennial ukulele virtuoso, but the fact that the generation z journalistsfrom mid- pacific on oahu chose to focus their storyon his entrepreneurial spirit is very apropos. [ukulele]
in order for you to succeed, you need to bea risk-taker. mentored by jake shimabukuro and roy sakuma,jody kamisato has a gift, a gift which he uses toinspire others. i think that's part of our mission, is toperpetuate the love of this instrument, the ukulele, and aloha. jody is an ukulele teacher who enjoys whathe does. but his career path wasn't always certain. i kind of fell into music, and teaching, andperforming. and you know, there were a few hurdles inbetween. you know, from 2002 to 2007, we were
teaching as ukulele essence, so it was bruceand i. and then, in 2007, another company basicallywanted to take over. it would have been really the easyway out for me, to just continue doing what i love to do. but basically, i would be anemployee of this company. or, have the option of starting myown company and my own school. i really had a vision formy school, and ultimately, i didn't want to compromise my vision and mission. it was really hard. and you know, it was stressful,and i was like, wow, you know, i gotta make a living,but how am i gonna do this?
i talked to a lot of friends, a lot of family,and they said, you know, you have to do what you love to do,and really find it in your heart. and don't listen to the people that say you're not gonnamake it in music, or you're not gonna be successful. there wassomething inside me saying, you know what, just do it,jody, you gotta do it. and if you don't try, you'll never know. so, i decided to open myown school in 2007 called ukulele hale. luckily, the studentswho i was teaching stuck around and supported me, andyou know, we went from forty-five students over the years to now, about two hundred andfifty students.
we have five instructors, including myself. he knows he made the right decision in hislife, following his passion, taking a risk, and persevering. you know, i'm not making millions of dollars,but i'm excited to come to work, you know. this is nicholas hasegawa from mid-pacific,for hiki nåœ. the children of generation z have sufferedthrough the worst economic crisis since the great depression.we are still feeling the effects of that crisis, as one in four american children lives inpoverty. the following story from waianae intermediateschool in west oahu shows how pervasive homelessness
iswithin our student population. so, it's seventeen to twenty-one. waianae intermediate school seventh-graderlarenzo tagura-bear, is a star athlete, an honor roll student,and a leader, when he is not joking around with his friends. [indistinct] [chuckle] for the past two years, larenzo has been entertaininghis friends at his after-school home, the waianaeboys and girls club. when i first moved to waianae ... my mom overthe summer, she put me in the club.
since becoming a member, larenzo, like thenearly four million students the boys and club of americaserves, found a place to do homework, hang out, and form friendships. larenzo was the vice president for my leadershipprogram for the ten- to twelve-year-olds. he was thegreatest peer leader for the other kids there. he would come straight from after school,and stay 'til closing. because of this dedication and late hours,johna leedy would drop him off to where she thought was hishome, until ...
one day, i seen him crossing the street. we had tents, and when it was windy, stormy,we always had to strap down with tape. we always had tobuild a fire to cook food. the waianae community has more homeless thananywhere else in the state of hawaii. larenzo is justone of the approximately 1.7 million youth who are homeless every year in the nation.it was in here where larenzo lived with twelve other people. being homeless ... my mom never really calledit homeless. she called it houseless. you don't havemuch food, but we try. um ... i'm sorry. i
used to sleep there. i chose to stay withmy mom because i figured i could help her out a little, 'causeshe was having a hard time. larenzo being homeless was unacceptable forboys and girls club director lana keamo. your actions gotta speak louder than yourwords. you gotta show. i cannot just tell the kids i love them,and find out that they're homeless, and not invite them in. for the next year, ms. keamo provided a homefor larenzo. she believes our country needs to unite tosolve the homeless issue. if every organization in the nation wouldtake in one homeless child, the world would
be a much ...brighter place. larenzo has since moved out of ms. keamo'sresidence, and he is no longer homeless. out of respect forhis privacy, we have decided not to reveal where he is living. with homelessness behindhim, larenzo is able to reflect on his experience. it feels ... easy. it's not hard for me toget food or to shower, to be clean. i'm just really happy i canhave a roof over my head. this is amee neves from waianae intermediateschool, for hiki nåœ. members of generation z tend to be very acceptingof people's differences. conditions that used
to beknown as disabilities are no longer considered reasons to isolate people from the mainstream.in the following story by gen z journalists at mauihigh school, a deaf student refuses to be called hearingimpaired, because she feels that her deafness should not impede her from doing anythingher hearing friends can do. [cheering] maui high school junior varsity cheerleaderchantal sandoval spends her weekends spreading cheer.but what makes this extraordinary is the fact
that chantal is legally deaf. here is chantal,speaking through an interpreter. i was just born that way. when my mother gavebirth to me ... she almost died. and then, i don't know;i became deaf. her deafness, however, has not denied herfrom pursuing her dream of cheering in front of a crowd. cheering was something i always wondered about,and i just wanted to know if i could make the team. however, chantal's journey to becoming a cheerleaderfor her school was not an easy one, even with
thehelp of sign language interpreters who helped facilitate communication between chantal andher coach. because anybody else, i can yell, point yourtoes, lift your shoulders, keep your head up, anything likethat. but if i try to yell at her to do those things, she doesn't understand, or she doesn'thear me. so, that's the biggest thing, is just trying toget her to really understand what i'm saying. as of recently, hearing her teammates andcoaches just became easier, thanks to the help of a cochlearimplant, a surgically implanted medical device that provides the sense of sound to a personwho is deaf or
severely hard of hearing. before i got my cochlear, i could still speakfor myself, and i used hearing aids. but still, it was still hardfor me, and i would miss a lot of the information. and many people would talk and probably speakbehind me, and i couldn't understand that. since i've got cochlear, i can understandthem a little bit more, and my hearing is improving. while cochlear has made cheering an easiertask for chantal, the negative stigma surrounding deaf peoplestill remains. many people feel very awkward, and they avoiddeaf people, and they don't offer help like
in a store.they tend to just ignore you. i feel like, really? i feel really hurt. ifeel like, insulted. and just because i'm deaf, it doesn't mean thati'm ignorant. though chantal has to navigate around theseobstacles, she embraces the fact that she is deaf. no, deaf people can do anything. it doesn'tmatter if they can't hear. just like hearing people, like, whatif they couldn't walk? does that mean they can't do anything? no, they can do anythingwith a wheelchair. it's the same thing for deaf people.we can't hear, but we can do anything we want.
but chantal wants to make one thing clear:do not call her impaired. well, i don't like the word impaired. it meanssomething's broken. and i'm not broken. i'm only deaf,and i was born that way. don't call me hearing impaired, call me deaf. chantal sandoval is living proof that a communicationchallenge does not have to keep anyone off thesidelines. she planes to continue to spread the saber spirit as loud as she can. thisis sydney green from maui high school, for hiki nåœ. hiki nåœ means can do in hawaiian, and appropriatelygeneration z is the can-do generation. when
agen z-er comes across a problem, his or her first impulse is fix it, often through theuse of technology and innovation. the following story from chiefesskamakahelei middle school on kauai follows a youngwoman who did just that. haley and her dog harley have been best friendssince haley was a toddler. her father wanted her togrow up with not just a pet, but a true companion. i would explain our relationship as special.he's like, around the same age, and i'm the one who takescare of him. he's really happy-go-lucky, and he gets me.
oh, boy. we took her to the humane society, and it'sthe one that she really gravitated towards and we felt was agood friendly dog for her. not long after they got him, haley and herfamily found out that harley was diagnosed with caninedegenerative myelopathy disease. degenerative myelopathy is a disease of thespinal cord of dogs. it's thought to be an inherited problemthat occurs in certain breeds of dogs. well, when i found out, i was really little,so i didn't really know what it did and how it affected him.but when i got older, i got to researching,
and i felt bad that it means that he's notgonna be able to walk around as much. seeing harley struggle, haley decided to dosomething to help her friend. there you go. there you go! first, i had to research about the disease,and how i could help. i got the idea to look for an app thatshows me, like, how much of what i would need, and a way i can look at it from a whole bunchof different angles. so, i found this app called123d design, and it's for building and engineering. haley went through trial and error to buildthis wheelchair, but the finished product
worked and affectedharley in many ways. i built the wheelchair for harley becausei found out that it's a way to better the life of a dog who has thiskind of disease. after i built the wheelchair, i saw he got a lot happier, and i think heknows that it's helping him. and so, it just makes me feelhappy that he's able to run and walk. i'm gonna get up, i'm gonna get up. what happened with the wheelchair is, it helpedthem spend more time together. i think that was whatreally made her want to do it for the dog. because she would notice that he would getso tired that he
would be stuck away, and wouldn't be ableto even get back to somewhere that he wanted to go. when i saw how excited he was, and how happyhe looked while he was walking and running around, ijust felt this overwhelming feeling of happiness. [chuckle] harley is a big part of the gokan family,and means a lot to haley as a best friend. their relationshipproves dogs truly are a man's best friend. this is kaycee nakashima from chiefess kamakaheleimiddle school, for hiki nåœ.
members of generation z have a great affinitywith people from their grandparents' generation and older.the fact that a group of middle schoolers from kapaa, kauai, could produce the followingstory on a retired police officer's battle against prostatecancer with such empathy and sensitivity bears this out. joseph young is a loving grandfather witha passion for bowling. he is also a retired police officer whosebiggest battle came after he left the force. i was diagnosed three years ago with prostatecancer, and i was given options to have radiation treatment,do surgery, or don't do anything. i chose
not to do anything. his diagnosis and decision to forego chemotherapycame as a great shock to his family. anybody who hears about someone they reallylove having cancer, i can say will probably feel sad. itwas really sad to see how he felt when they gave him the news that he had cancer as well. it was like, you know, how are we going tosay it to the kids, to the children, that their dad and grandpahas cancer. his doctors prescribed medications to preventthe cancer from spreading and reduce inflammation, butmr. young had his own treatment plan-spending
more time with his family and doing what heloved. he would go on his bowling trips with thefamily and, you know, basically just spending time together,eating dinners together, spending more quality time together. he has sore legs a lot, so when i have time,i help massage his feet. and then, my mom and i got himmassaging machines to help massage his legs and his back area. and we try to help himas much as we can at home. three years later, he was declared cancer-free.while he still takes medicine to keep the
cancer fromrecurring, this unexpected turn of events let everyone breathe a sigh of relief. the recovery for me had to do with my willpowerto tell myself that this disease will not beat me. irefuse to say that, yeah, this disease is going to take my life. i won't accept it,so i fought back. with seventy years of experience, mr. youngis determined not to let his medical problem slow himdown. he continues to lead an active lifestyle with a positive outlook. he is a very strong-minded, very strong innerspirit. he encourages others to be strong,
and for us to just,you know, count our blessings every day and just be thankful that he's still here. mr. young always puts family first. this isan important life lesson he feels everyone should know. they're always there, and they give me support,and that's a big plus. enjoy your life, make everymoment count, whether it's having fun out there on the beach, bowling, or doing thingsyou want to do, and look for tomorrow. i think you'll be asurvivor, you just keep going. because of his loving family and love forlife, mr. young is forever grateful to be
a survivor. this israghav kumar from kapaa middle school, for hiki nåœ. social entrepreneurship is not just a buzzphrase for generation z. it's a way of life, and a calling. thefollowing story by students from kapaa high school on kauai is about a pair of socialentrepreneur brothers who are taking their public awarenesscampaign on the road-literally. my brother jason and i are going to run ahalf-marathon. are you ready? that's thirteen miles. that'sdouble what we did. ever since high school, josh iloreta has wantedto run in a marathon. his younger brother
jason ishelping him to fulfill that dream. we decided to do these runs after being inspiredby dick and rick hoyt. he's been actually running withhis son, who has cerebral palsy, in triathlons, marathons, all these different races, fora number of years already. i am my ability, i am not my disabilityhighlights someone's capabilities, someone's humanabilities. it's a campaign that josh and i sort of thought about when we decided to runmarathons. [starting horn/indistinct cheers] if a person can communicate, they can showhow to love, how to laugh. like, that's the
most importantpart in life. i think the number-one hardship or the number-one difficulty for someone withspecial needs is breaking that barrier that society has,that misconception that because you have special needs orbecause you have a diagnosis, that you are limited to certain things. with my brother,people automatically think that he can't understandwhat people are saying, or that he can't really move about.what people don't understand is that they're all there. they're consciously there, they'recognitive abilities are still there. they just can'tmaybe speak or walk.
i like to swim and go paddling. i love listeningto music. he likes to just go to the mall and just hangingout at starbucks or having lunch, or just hanging out,doing brotherly things. he comes to my room and wants to sleep in, so he'll tell me to,you know, lay him on my bed, and he can sleep in. do you like these? yeah? the iloreta brothers have motivated many peopleto speak up and show their support for what they aredoing. the boys, the iloreta brothers definitelymake a difference. they have inspired me.
i am so touched bywhat they do each day. and for them to complete their dream and their accomplishment is amazing. [cheers/applause] when asked what message they would give tosomeone going through similar difficulties, josh and jasonwanted to tell everyone ... don't give up on their dream and just go forit. the moments that you sacrifice, things thatyou sacrifice for, and the moments you spend with thisperson, that is making a difference in their lives. that is making their world feel lesssmall.
this kiara wetherington from kapaa high school,for hiki nåœ. thank you for joining me in this look at someof the best hiki nåœ stories from the winter quarter of the2015-2016 school year, and how these stories reflect the values of their makers, the membersof generation z. i think you'll agree that thegenerational qualities that these stories reflect-empathy,acceptance and an entrepreneurial spirit-bode well for that time in the not too distantfuture when generation z takes over the reins of leadershipfor our state, our country and the world. i, too, am aproud member of generation z, and the hiki
nåœ generation. i hope i can live up to thegreat promise and potential expressed in the stories ofmy generation.
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