HIKI NŌ 4|19|22: #1314

Featured stories include Ivory Chun-Hoon’s Student Reflection, a 2nd grader at Ernest Bowen de Silva Elementary on Hawaiʻi Island. She discusses the yearning she feels to be with family again during the COVID-19 pandemic and how she’s coping with going back to school in person.

Maui Waena Intermediate School’s first-place winning story from the HIKI NŌ 2022 Winter Challenge takes viewers behind the scenes when a school has to deal with teacher absences during the pandemic.

Emily Hartshorn, a senior at Kapaʻa High School on Kauaʻi, tells her musical love story and how she navigates the ups and downs of recording an original rock album.

Students from Aliamanu Middle School on Oʻahu share their story of how they keep their family bonds strong throughout military deployments.

Kapaʻa High School senior Tristyn Rivera shares a reflection about her family’s practice of hunting wild boar.

Students at Waiākea High School on Hawaiʻi Island share a story about the importance of using peoples’ preferred pronouns, and Waiākea High School senior Kema Todd-Walden shares a Student Reflection that follows a typical day in her life. Todd-Walden’s reflection took home a first place award in the HIKI NŌ 2022 Winter Challenge.

Mina Suzuki from H.P. Baldwin High School on Maui shares her visual essay about how her definition of love has evolved as she grows older.

Pearl City High School students offer a How-To about how to approach a school crush.

Hawaiʻi Island’s Keaʻau High School student Austin Directo shares his piece entitled “Missing,” which took third place in the HIKI NŌ 2022 Winter Challenge.

HIKI NŌ 4|19|22: #1314