UPDATE: College Students Helping Make the Most of Furlough Fridays
This Friday — Hawaii’s 16th Furlough Friday — a group of students in the at will team up with to provide a free educational alternative for public high school students who would otherwise be out of school.
It will be the fifth hands-on workshop the Chaminade students have hosted in partnership with business and community leaders to keep high school students learning on school furlough days. Their focus seems to be on science, technology and innovation-related subjects. Check out of one workshop with and . It’s good to see people seeking constructive alternatives during a bad financial time for the school system.
This Friday’s workshop is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Oceanit headquarters and has room for 30 students. To learn more or reserve a spot, e-mail hawaiinexusproject@gmail.com, call Rechung Fujihira at 840-7337 or call John Rankin at 265-8715.
View our backgrounder pages on Furlough Fridays, Hawaii Student Achievement and Hawaii Education Accountability, and please join us in the discussion about Hawaii’s education system.
