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.

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11/19: WHAT'S WET, SMELLS, AND IS VERY MUDDY? POUHALA MARSH!

Cleaning Pouhala Marsh!  It's not one of the most "fun" projects, but very necessary to the environment and something that must be done.  So, on an overcast Saturday morning, eight officers as well as two dozen members of the Science Club went out to clear cat-tails that are non-native but grow wild in the marsh, taking up valuable water space.  We spent most of the morning ankle (and sometimes knee-) deep in smelly mud clearing out the invasive plants.  Some temporarily lost a shoe.  But the task was completed and in the end, Hawaii Nature Center director Pauline Kawamata commented that the SA Officer GIRLS in particular worked really hard, and that she was pleasantly surprised to see that they could get down and dirty, too!
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