LEADERSHIP: IT'S NOT ABOUT REWARDS; IT'S DOING WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE ACKNOWLEDGES YOU!

2022 MOANALUA HIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (above) The Moanalua High School Executive Council is made up of fifteen volunteers. VOLUNTEERS! While officers are elected, they choose to run knowing that if they win, there is no physical reward, no letter grade, no incentive other than the pure satisfaction of doing a good job and representing the student body. At times, we achieve great success while at other times, we achieve somewhat less, but it is always a learning process. While we can take away much satisfaction from doing a good job, we can also learn from mistakes and try to better ourselves the next time. And so, at the end of our terms, while we do not earn a credit, a letter grade or even a certificate of achievement proving our accomplishments, we can take away the self-satisfaction in knowing that we did our best for the students, school and community, and that positive experience is something we can really use as contributing adult members of society.

Thursday

7/28-8/5: WELCOME BACK REHEARSAL IN FULL FORCE!

Summer is almost over, and that means it's rehearsal time for the Welcome Back Assembly!  Once again, more than 80 volunteers are participating in the skit, dance, prop-making, scenery painting, and whatever it takes to make it happen!  The theme is a secret for now, but one of the pictures below hints at what it might be!
 
There will be dancing.....

.....and MORE dancing!

Running through the script!

Let's show more emotion!

Theme hint:  See girl on the right!
 
How realistic does this scene have to look?
 
These props need to be finished soon!
 
 

Friday

7/25: START OF SOMETHING NEW!

Where did summer go?  Well officially, our first event of the new school year is Leadership Conference at the end of May but really, the first executive council meeting and planner splits is the real symbolic beginning.  On this day we meet to go over vital information, then finish by splitting up the planners by homeroom and collate all the necessary flyers for teachers.  It seems like two tedious tasks but with a dozen people to help, both are completed quickly.  In fact, we actually finished with a half hour to spare.  Here's wishing you all a great school year, and we look forward to corresponding with you!
 
There are sure a LOT of planners!

Looks like the Junior stacks are done!

How many flyers are there anyway?

Kylah knows the answer!
 

Wednesday

7/9-11: OH, THE PLACES WE WENT....SLC 2014!

The Student Leadership Conference (SLC) 2014 borrowed a theme from Dr. Seuss:  "Oh, The Places You'll Go!  And yes, at this year's SLC, we really went places!  Not so much physical places as the entire conference was contained on the UH-Manoa campus, including the dorms, but to new places for leadership skills, personal skills and hopefully long lasting friendships.  About 280 students from public and private schools, middle and high schools and Oahu and neighbor island schools attended the three day event coordinated by State Education Specialist Tiffany Frias and an elite group of facilitators.  Thank you to them all as well as the SAC chaperones who also appeared to have some fun, too!

Opening Day!

Energizers!

Games!
 

MORE games!


Moanalua receives the OSCAR!

Last Day!

(Top, l-r):  Justin Honda, Lily Tam, Rachel Tanoue, Jannah Dela Cruz, Mark Meno, and Jennifer Mead.  (Bottom, l-r):  Crystal Fujiwara, Jocelyn Yip, Alisha McDevitt, Devin Soogrim, Brooke Chinen, Eunica Escalante, Alyssa Kim, Rachelle Yang, Edra Ha, and Jeongbin Won.