Education briefs
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Punahou student's essay a winner
Owen Martel of Honolulu has been named the Hawai'i state winner in the 16th annual National Peace Essay Contest, sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace.
Martel, who attends Punahou School, wrote an essay titled "The Justness of War." He will receive a $1,000 scholarship and compete for the 2003 national first prize of a $10,000 college scholarship.
The 52 winners (including students from Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia) will visit Washington, D.C., June 21-26 to meet with U.S. government and foreign embassy officials, members of Congress and others involved in the making of U.S. foreign policy.
At week's end, the national winners will be announced.
Iolani students head for New York
Four Iolani School students will compete in the National Economics Challenge May 17-19 in New York City.
The team — Yuan Gao, Christine Tasato, Chris Iraha and Jerrene Takeuchi — won first place in the regional NCEE/Goldman Sachs Foundation's National Economics Challenge on April 28 in San Francisco.
The students won $1,000 savings bonds and expenses-paid trips to the national competition.
Two Hawai'i students earn national honor
Two Hawai'i high school seniors — Laura Quek of Hawai'i Baptist Academy and Matthew D. Jachowski of Maui High School — have been recognized as Presidential Scholars.
Quek and Jachowski are among 137 students nationwide recognized from a field of more than 2,600 for their academic achievements. They will visit Washington, D.C., June 21-26 and be honored at a recognition ceremony.
The scholars were selected on the basis of broad academic achievement, including SAT or ACT scores, essays and transcripts, as well as evidence of leadership, community service and commitment to high ideals.
Since 1983, each Presidential Scholar has been able to invite the teacher who has most inspired him or her to excel to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the program's National Recognition Week.
The teachers also receive a Teacher Recognition Award from the U.S. Education Department.
Quek's most influential teacher was Lynne Nakano. Jachowski's most influential teacher was Andrew Klukowski.
Chaminade ceremony Monday
Four hundred graduates will receive their diplomas from Chaminade University of Honolulu in ceremonies beginning at 7 p.m. Monday at the Neil Blaisdell Concert Hall. Commencement ceremonies will be telecast live on 'Olelo Channel 55 and on Chaminade's Web site, www.chaminade.edu.
HPU newspaper receives awards
For the seventh consecutive year, Kalamalama, Hawai'i Pacific University's student newspaper, received a top national award and a national First Place with Special Merit award that placed it among the top seven college newspapers in the nation, university officials said.
The American Scholastic Press Association awarded Kalamalama the Most Outstanding News Photograph award for business manager Jaclynn Fasken's overhead photo of Honolulu police removing motorcycles from a campus bicycle parking area.
Graduation
Saint Louis High School will hold its graduation ceremony at 1:30 p.m. May 24 at Blaisdell Center.
