The end of the year brings about a cascade of honors for Moanalua High School students. The different programs on campus recently announced their state and national winners.

Media/Art Awards

Media and Communications Learning Center (MeneMAC)

Digital Media teachers Mark Ikenaga, Austin Zavala, Kelly Calistro, and Lori Goeas presented the list of film and broadcast journalism winners from state and national competitions.

Student Television Network Fall Challenge (National)

High School SHORT 2nd Place–”The Test Date”–Cassidy Furutani, Preston Silva, Zoe Slaughter, Devin Hung, Taylor Sunouchi

High School Music Video 2nd Place–”Walls”–Sara Brekke, Angela Chong-Gum, Mary Rose Mitchell, Easton Ikenaga, Khloe Ringor

Student Television Network Convention Film Excellence

Best Directing–”Mirage” –Sara Brekke

Student Television Network Convention Broadcast Excellence

Excellence in Broadcasting- Monthly News Show- “Now Loading News” -Frances Michelle Uy, Austin Ariola

STN Spring Nationals 2021

Honorable Mention:

Pandemic Vlog

Cassidy Furutani, Jaymes Tokuda, Easton Ikenaga

Honorable Mention:

Humorous SHORT

“Breakup Sandwich”

Preston Silva, Leigh Antoinette Medina, Deanan Oliveros

National Academy of Television and Arts, San Francisco Chapter

Non Fiction–Short Form

MERIT Award: Mo’olelo: The Stories of Aloha”

Chris Cochrane, Frances Michelle Uy, Austin Ariola, Zion David-Ravey

Fiction-Short Form

MERIT Award: “Mirage”

Sara Brekke, Angela Chong-Gum, Mary Rose Mitchell, Easton Ikenaga, Khole Reigh Ringor

Director

MERIT Award: “Mirage”

Sara Brekke

Editor

EXCELLENCE Award: “Mirage”–Sara Brekke

Photographer (Cinematography)

EXCELLENCE Award: “Mirage”–Sara Brekke, Khloe Reigh Ringor

Writer

MERIT Award: “Mirage”–Sara Brekke, Mary Rose Mitchell

‘Olelo Youth Xchange 2021 (state)

Healthy Living (1st Place) — “Choose Healthy and Ono At Home”– Cassidy Furutani, Jaymes Tokuda, Noalei Malacas

Traffic Safety (1st Place) — “Eyes On The Road” — Easton Ikenaga and Khloe Ringor

Short Film (1st Place) –”Mirage”– Sara Brekke, Angela Chong-Gum, Mary Rose Mitchell, Easton Ikenaga, Khloe Ringor

Coping with Covid (1st Place) –“Stay Active, Keep a Routine”– Shaena Buck

Stormwater Hero (1st Place) –“Littering is stoppable if you Are Responsible” Trevor Kwak

Substance Abuse (1st Place) — “It Only Took One Hit” Haley Akana

Expert (1st Place) — “Lost and Found” — Austin Ariola and Frances Michelle Uy

Choose Healthy & Ono at Home (Finalist) — “Think Before You Drink” —  Ruben Chavez 

Mini Documentary (Finalist) — ”Mo’olelo: The Stories of Aloha” — Zion, Chris, Austin, Frances

Mini Documentary (Finalist) — “Moving Forward”– Tysen Yahiku, Lehua Thompson, Sydnee Cabacungan

Substance Abuse- Finalist– “The Addiction”– Wyatt Imamoto

A More Resilient & Sustainable Hawai’i (Finalist) — “Solar Energy is Now” — Noah Cheng

Graphic Arts

Graphic Arts teacher Sean Nishimura announced the 2021 High School PELE Awards recognize and reward Creative Excellence in the art of Advertising and Design. Both Nishimura’s and Na’a Makekau’s students participated.

2021 BEST OF SHOW FINALIST

Kenneth Wong   Poster Category

Arianne Javier   Illustration Category

PELE GOLD

Kenneth Wong   Packaging Category

Arianne Javier   Packaging Category

Rachel Yang     Special Event Material

Kenneth Wong  Poster Category

Arianne Javier   Illustration Category

Kara Kanetake   Poster Category

PELE SILVER

Aaron Javier      Packaging Category

Keili Ishiara       Poster Category

Siena Bulagay  Poster Category

Siena Bulagay  Misc Project

Rachel Yang    Misc Project

Cassandra Au   Publication Design Cover

Ashton Guting   Poster Category

Sophia Largo    Logo Category

PELE BRONZE

Brycen Martinez Publication Design Cover

Kara Kanetake   Apparel Category

Danni Neyer      Apparel Category

Noalei-Rose Malacas Poster Category

Isabella Sepulveda   Poster Category

STEM Awards

eCybermission State and Regional Awards

eCYBERMISSION is a web-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) competition for students in grades six through nine that promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM. Although they did not advance to nationals, the 1st place winners & regional finalists will each receive $2000 in savings bonds. Science teacher Nicole Nakasuji was the adviser for the students, who were in her grade 9 honors physics class.

REGIONAL FINALISTS & STATE WINNERS 2020-2021 

Hawaii 9th Grade Winners   

1st Place: Composticides Crew, Moanalua High School, Honolulu, HI 

Gavin Kauina, Trinity Baek-Kim, & Kenneth John Cruz investigated what best promotes plant growth in an effort to encourage novice gardeners to grow their own food and reduce the potential issue of food insecurity due  imported food supply lines to Hawaii being cut off.

1st Place: TKT, Moanalua High School, Honolulu, HI 

Trip Hiramoto, Krishan Miller, Theodore Nguyen investigated how to get Oahu’s food waste to reduce less methane when decomposing.  They did this by testing compost bins of different contents with and without red wiggler worms to test their hypothesis of “If we compost specific types of consumable food wastage using worms, which can be adapted to a larger scale, total methane emissions will then decrease because we are composting food waste that would have emitted more methane if we had not.”

Honorable Mention: Riptide, Moanalua High School, Honolulu, HI  

Braelyn Kunimura, Jordyn Haramura, Matehya Shoji, Dawson Sugawa looked into how to reduce the amount of plastic polluting the ocean and harming marine life by designing a biodegradable can holder (to replace the plastic six-pack rings) from jute twine.

Engineering Technology I

Students, under the guidance of STEM teacher Joanna Kobayashi, tied for 2nd place at this year’s Construction Industry Round Table National Design & Construction Competition

Harrison Law (2023)

Edwin Sun (2021)

Justin Hirota (2021)

Matthew Terry (2023)

Kory Phanthavong (2023)

Under the guidance of our Hawai ACE Mentor Program mentors, this team submitted a proposal for “Kaka’ako Community Campus,” a homeless shelter concept that focused on consolidating needs and services in a campus setting. 

SA Awards

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