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.

Friday

1/19: WELCOME AKITA CHUO!

Five students from Akita Chuo Senior High School along with their teacher and vice principal visited Moanalua to meet with our students and discuss alternative energy progress in Hawaii as well as in their home town in Akita.  Student government officers hosted them during their visit, and they also got a chance to make a presentation to Ms. Kobayashi's science class during Period 2.  It was interesting to learn how they have similar strategies such as geothermal energy being that Japan is also a volcanic group of islands, but being far north means that solar panels are useless there.  It was an excellent mutual learning experience!

Hosts and guests share refreshments!

Akita students make their presentation!

A little fun and games doesn't hurt!

SAYONARA!

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Monday

1/8: HAPPY NEW YEAR OHANA STYLE!

The annual Ohana Day Festival was celebrated at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii under beautiful clear skies and, unlike last year, no water sprinkler mishaps!  The festival is held each year to celebrate the new year, Japanese style so of course, the highlights included mochi pounding, cultural displays, and the introduction of the Cherry Blossom court members.  If you didn't get a chance to attend, you really missed out!  Our officer group was given the task of managing the volunteer booth and later taking care of the rest of the workers throughout the festival.  It was a lot of fun!  We'll be back in 2018!

These nametags are so tangled!

Don't forget your water!

We have the volunteer booth under control!

Taiko drums open the festival!

Food, food, food!

Games galore!
What's a new year without mochi?

Three mallets pound in rhythm!

A BEAUTIFUL 2017 is here!

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12/21: WINTER FANTASY FUN!

WINTER FANTASY 2016
December 21, 2016
Pacific Beach Hotel
Grand Ballroom

The calm before the storm!

Tables adorned with frosted trees!

Check in procedures smooth as usual!

The most difficult decision:
What picture pose and background?

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