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Ka Pilina No‘eau II is a 3-year research project at the Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Education Program (Award #S362A200037) to improve mathematics and science outcomes of K-5th grade students.

Ka Pilina Noʻeau Hoʻomau is a 3-year research project at the Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Education Program (Award # S362A230004) to improve the mathematics and science outcomes of PreK-5th grade students.

A girl programs a robot to knock over water bottles on the floor.
Bowling with Dash robot
children are standing around an obstacle course to program a robot through the course
Programming Dash robot
students hold up colorful paper weaving projects and smile and make silly faces
Learning about multiplication arrays and lauhala weaving
a teacher watches a girl weave blue strips of paper into a purple piece of paper
Weaving
Students hold bottles and look at the liquids inside
Viscosity experiment
a student looks at seaweed on her worksheet and holds a pencil after drawing what the seaweed looks like
Limu observations
two boys look at three containers to measure rocks, water, and dirt
Measuring volume and building terrariums
a boy sits on the ground and points to the container in his hand that has sand in it to find the measurement on the side of the container
Measuring volume and building terrariums
students sit on the floor looking at a teacher
Time...to learn!
A girl wearing and holding a multi-colored yarn lei and smiling
Lei math
Students and two teachers gather around a tsunami wave tank model on the ground
Using fractions to construct a tsunami experiment
A young girl holds up a kapa pattern she designed on brown paper using blue, red and green circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles
Kapa shapes
A young girl writes on a paper on a table that also has photos of different fruit
Fruit lengths
Two young girls build a small house using playdough, pretzels, and spaghetti sticks.
Working together to build hale
Five students sit around their desk coloring a worksheet
Water cycle diagrams

News:

  • Ka Pilina Noʻeau Hoʻomau (KPNH) was funded in September 2023! In addition to our previous programs implemented during our KPN II project, KPNH will add a PreK curriculum beginning in our Summer 2024 programs and new Professional Development opportunities for project mentors. We are very excited for the continued opportunity to work with students, their families, teachers, and members of the community!

Upcoming Events:

  • We are partnering with Waiau Elementary School to run afterschool programs for K & 1 students in English and for Kaiapuni students in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
  • Holualoa Elementary will be using our STEM curricula in their K-5 STEM classes this school year.
  • KPNH will running our professional development series for educational professionals in Spring 2026.
  • We will be partnering Boys and Girls Club of Hawaiʻi clubhouses on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi to bring STEM programs to 2nd-5th grade students this summer!