Media Highlights

Rewarding Character

National School of Character

Commitment to service

Carnegie Hall date thrills choir

Lancer Robot

Catcher gets the last laugh

Aloha, Kalaupapa / Braving elements, videography team shoots a winner

Greeting the digital revolution

Fieldwork enriches faculty

Money Makeover (Honolulu Advertiser Article)

Girls gather to break sterotype (Advertiser Article)

Math Teacher Receives Presidential Award for Excellence
The PreCalculus class is going on a 'field trip' to the grade school playground. As some students go back and forth on the swing, fondly recalling memories of carefree, younger days, other students gather position data of the swinging motion with calculator-based rangers. The group returns to their classroom, plots a graph of the data and determines a trigonometric equations to describe the motion.

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'Everyday Heroes' Found in the Academy's Teaching Ranks
Everyday Heros is a program recognizing teachers who have made a difference in the lives of their students and are dedicated, innovative and an inspiration. The program, sponsored by the Department of Education, private and parochial schools, Papa John's Hawaii, Foodland and Coca-Cola Hawaii, begins at the grassroots level, where parents, students, peers and other members of the local community can nominate teachers for recognition. The Academy's Lurline Choy, a Social Studies teacher and the senior class advisor, and William Plourde, a teacher in the Theology Department, are nominees for this honor.

Choy has successfully involved students in the study of Economics at the Academy, convincing them that the understanding and appreciation of the discipline is achievable and viable for them. In addition to her duties in the classroom, Choy willingly shoulders other tasks that extend the education process, including coaching the Mock Trial Team and spearheading the Economic Summit for Girls.

Like Choy, Plourde's teaching also extends beyond the four-wall boundary of the classroom. As part of his Theology curriculum, Plourde takes students to clean the King Street Cemetary twice a year. Beyond sweating and lugging filled trash bags, the students take in some history and reflect on the meaning of mortality. After the school day is done, Plourde serves as a coach, 'by night', for the Lancer Sailing Team.

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RadioShack Honors High School Math Teacher for Academic Excellence
RadioShack Corporation has presented a 2004 National Teacher Award to Caroline Klempir, a math teacher in the high school. She is among 110 educators receiving a RadioShack award this year for demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence in mathematics, science or technology. The awardees will receive a cash award.

Klempir, an Algebra and Geometry teacher, is one of two Hawaii teachers honored by RadioShack this year.

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Big Sister- Positive influence (Advertiser Article)

Star Bulletin Ornaments

Leonardo Delgado

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