Friday Blast

Hawaii Technology Academy – February 4, 2011

More Spirit Week

Clips Mascot
ENJOY SOME MORE CLIPS
OF HTA’s SPIRIT WEEK. Contest
Pajama Day: Winner
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John Barrera is the
HTA Mascot Contest
Hat_Hair Day: Winner.
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Congratulations on a
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Congratulations
to
all
the
Kauai
and

Big
Island
middle
school
students
for

their
fantastic
science
fair
projects!

Kauai
students
presented
their

projects
at
the
Princeville
Learning

Center
and
Big
Island
students

presented
their
projects
via

Elluminate.
Mahalo
to
the
Learning

Coaches
for
their
support
in
this

endeavor!
Great
work
students!

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 Counseling Corner
SUPPORT YOUR CHILD

Most parents love their children unconditionally and give their kids unwavering support. However,
when it comes to school, homework, and being successful, sometimes we can push our kids a little too
hard. In return, kids can shut down, become impatient, unwilling, and rebellious. Sometimes, kids
even begin to hate school and the dreaded word--- homework.
Remember, your child wants to succeed in school. With these ten tips in mind courtesy of Hitchner,
Hitchner, and Apostol, you can increase your support for your very special youngster.

1. Periodically (but not continuously) communicate to your child the importance of education.

2. Build up your child’s confidence and self-esteem.

3. Work with your child to help him or her develop a positive attitude toward work and school.
(Instead of calling it homework, you can say study time).

4. Provide encouragement to your child whenever possible.

5. Be a good listener. (Learn to withhold judgment unless they ask for your opinion).

6. Be available to discuss problems your child is having, whether they are large or small.

7. Set up your child’s time schedule to include a balance of work, play, and study.

8. Establish a time for sharing and caring. (Game night, family dinners without television, family
movie night, etc.)

9. Take part in your child’s education---be active in his or her school.

10. Show your love and affection to your child-OFTEN!

Mahalo,
Mrs. Buford
K-8 School Counselor

JAMBA JUICE SUCCESS and PTSA

THANK YOU! The PTSA has received a check for $66.20 from
Jamba Juice. This check is the result of HTA families using their
swipe cards during purchases at Jamba Juice. PLEASE KEEP
SWIPING AND DRINKING YOUR SMOOTHIES. The
PTSA would also like you to know that you can save a dollar
during the month of February at Jamba Juice. Go to
http://www.jambajuice.com/insider for details.

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 Thursday February 10, 2011
All Learning Center Classes and Elluminate Classes will be cancelled
for February 10th. Please come and support American Heart
Association at this school event.

Hawaii Technology Academy

will host its first Jump Rope for
Heart day this Thursday
February 10, 2011.
Location: 94-801 Kamehameha Highway
Waipahu, HI 96797
Time: 9am-12
Please bring:
Water bottle
Snacks
Wear HTA shirt
Wear comfortable shoes for
jumping.
If you have any questions please contact
Celeste Faumui @
cfaumui@hawaiitechacademy.org or
Charisse Perez @ cperez@myhta.org

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 HIGH SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB MEETING
There will be a high school environmental club meeting on Monday, February 7 at 3:00 in
classroom 3 at the learning center. New members are welcome to attend.

Meeting Agenda
A. Environmental Club Yearbook Picture
B. HMSA Teen Video Contest
C. My Hawai’i Story Project 2011
D. Kokua Hawai’i Foundation Art Contest
E. Plastic Free Schools Hawaii
F. Environmental Club Bulletin Board
G. HTA learning center recycling program

Please contact Mr. Gasda with any questions about the club.

ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB FIELD TRIP TO WAIMEA VALLEY

On Thursday, February 24 our middle school and high school environmental club members will be
visiting Waimea Valley to learn about the Hawaiian ahupua’a system and resource management,
native Hawaiian plants and their cultural uses, and endangered species living in the valley. We will
also be doing volunteer work with the caretakers of Waimea Valley. Work may include garden,
nursery, and trail maintenance, pond and stream clearing, and/or invasive species removal. New
members are welcome. Please contact Mr. Gasda (grades 9-12) or Mr. Zitello (grades 7-8) for more
information.

GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR

Are you a student who loves science? Do you have a good idea for an experiment that you’d
like to share with the world? In 1996, two young computer science students, Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, had a hypothesis that there was a better way to find information on the web.
They did their research, tested their theories and built a search engine which (eventually)
changed the way people found information online. Larry and Sergey were fortunate to be
able to get their idea in front of lots of people. But how many ideas are lost because people
don’t have the right forum for their talents to be discovered? We believe that science can
change the world—and one way to encourage that is to celebrate and champion young
scientific talent as we do athletes and pop idols.

To help make today’s young scientists the rock stars of tomorrow, in partnership with
CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, we’re introducing the
first global online science competition: the Google Science Fair. It’s open to students around
the world who are between the ages of 13-18. All you need is access to a computer, the
Internet and a web browser.

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 You may have participated in local or regional science fairs where you had to be in the same
physical space to compete with kids in your area. Now any student with an idea can participate
from anywhere, and share their idea with the world. You build and submit your project—either
by yourself or in a team of up to three—entirely online. Students in India (or Israel or Ireland)
will be able to compete with students in Canada (or Cambodia or Costa Rica) for prizes
including once-in-a-lifetime experiences (like a trip to the Galapagos Islands with a National
Geographic Explorer), scholarships and real-life work opportunities (like a five-day trip to
CERN in Switzerland). And if you’re entering a science fair locally, please feel free to post that
project online with Google Science Fair, too!

To enter, register online (http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/) and create your project

as a Google Site. Registration is open through April 4, 2011. Please note: you must get parental
or guardian consent in order to compete. You can check out the complete rules here. After
April 4, we’ll begin judging and will announce our semi-finalists in early May.

The semi-finalist projects will be posted on our online gallery, where we’ll encourage the public
to vote for a “people’s choice” winner. From our list of semi-finalists, we’ll select 15 finalists to
bring their projects to Google headquarters on July 11 to compete in our final, live event, where
world-renowned science judges will select a winner in each age category, as well as a grand-
prize winner.

ALL CLASSES AND

ELLUMINATE SESSIONS
WILL BE CANCELLED ON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,
2011 IN SUPPORT OF THE
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART
EVENT.
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