Sustainable Education Resolution: The Journey

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By: Trevor Tanaka

 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation) Essay Contest
 Essay Question – Why is
sustainability important to you,
Hawaii...

 Later on that year, I participated in a conference
called SSC (Seconday Student Conference).
 At the Secondary Student ...

 I crafted a resolution
incorporating
sustainability/sustainable
education into the public
high school science
curriculum...

 After the completion of SSC, members of the DOE
questioned Resolution 25 and said that “it was
already being done.”
 Th...

 I talked with Nancy about
my project and she
nominated me to be a
SHYLI (Sustainable Hawaii
Youth Leadership
Initiative)...

 Last year, I attended
the 2012 Youth
Leadership Summit for
Sustainable
Development on
Martha’s Vineyard.
 My focus was ...

 Josue, Marianne, Marsha, and Nane helped
me to think outside of the box and find new
ways to attract the attention of th...

 The summit was eye-opening
and it allowed me to realize
how important sustainability is
and why it is such a keen
focus ...

 At the start of my senior year of high school I had
to pick a topic for my senior project. It was an
easy choice – Susta...

 The second focus of my Senior Project would be
working on passing my resolution.
 At the start of the process I had a f...

 After meeting Representative Coffman, our
first plan of action was to submit my
resolution to the LRB (Legislative Refer...

 The next step was to get a hearing in both the
House and Senate Education Committees.
 Representative Coffman brought u...

 From this point forward, my resolution would
now be known as HCR 178 and SCR 192.
 HCR 178 stands for House Concurrent
...

 On March 21, 2013, I received
an email from Representative
Coffman’s secretary Napua that
my resolution was going to be
...

 After getting the hearing notices, my job was to
ask everyone I knew to submit testimony in
support of my resolution. I ...

 March 25, 2013
 During the afternoon I participated in both
hearings, where I testified in support of my
resolution.

 Both of the hearings were a success as each of the
committees passed my resolution.
 Each of the committees made amendm...

 The final step of the resolution was to have both HCR
178 HD1 and SCR 192 SD1 go through a process
called conference.
 ...

 Meanwhile, throughout
the resolution process, I
had cleared and tilled the
slot of land I was given
and started to creat...

 January 19, 2013
 Each of the five SHYLI delegates presented their
projects and their process since arriving home
from ...

 Through this process I
realized how important
it is to be sustainable.
 It also became relative
that getting others
inv...

Sustainable Education Resolution: The Journey

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