Hi‘ilei provides educational home-visits where parents meet regularly with a Parents As Teachers certified educator to learn about early childhood development and gain the skills needed to be their child’s first and best teacher.
Ho‘āla conducts outreach that provides families with information on the importance of early childhood education and helps them navigate systems to secure early learning opportunities for their child.
Keiki Steps is a Hawaiian culture-based family-child interactive learning preschool where parents and children, from newborn to age 5, learn together to ensure academic success and prepare keiki for Kindergarten.
Empowering
Early
Learning
Ka Lama Education Academy supports community members in their pursuit to become high-quality teachers in their home communities through college support, mentorship and professional training.
Kaulele seeks to create informal STEM learning opportunities through indigenous Hawaiian knowledge that connects modern and traditional science to help young learners engage, connect to and succeed in STEM academics and occupations.
Kupu Ola collaborates with schools to create alternative learning approaches that focus on strengthening academic and personal confidence in youth through the integration of Native Hawaiian culture in outdoor classrooms and interactive learning activities.
Early Literacy collaborates with community early childcare services and preschools, providing professional development, educational materials, coaching, and support for the delivery of an evidence-based literacy intervention.
Empowering
Educational
Equity
Ho‘oulu Waiwai works with families to strengthen financial well-being though partnerships, pathways and learning experiences that nurture personal financial wellness and entrepreneurial development.
The INPEACE Center for Entrepreneurship supports new family-owned business start-ups on the Leeward Coast of O‘ahu to increase their capacity to succeed.
Empowering
Economic
Stability
Over many generations, Hawaiian have raised fish using sustainable loko iʻa which would be used to feed the community.
About this exhibit
Hawaiʻi’s Loko Iʻa (Hawaiian Fishpond) is an innovative part of our ahupuaʻa and the aquaculture system that has thrived for many generations. The Loko Iʻa Exhibit highlights STEM components of traditional Hawaiian fishpond systems and the brilliant engineering of the native Hawaiian people that aided to the Hawaiian communal society’s sustainable aquatic ecosystem.
This experience takes the visitor through 5 sections that aim to invigorate the scientist in them by activating their skill in kilo (observation to understand), noiʻi (investigation to know), and ʻimiloa (further explore). This Hawaiian culture and science pop-up exhibit provides an opportunity for all ages to learn how the loko iʻa (fishpond) affects the environment as this exhibit walks visitors through activities that will help connect native Hawaiian practices and STEM science.
Exhibit Features
Explore informational and interactive stations to:
Loko Iʻa is available as a pop-up Hawaiian culture and science exhibit.
For pricing and availability, contact Alaka‘i Aglipay at (808) 693-7222 ext. 610 or alakaia@inpeace.org
Required Size
Minimum 1,200 sq ft
Required Ceiling Height
Minimum 10 ft
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