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MEDIA RELEASE Nearly 50 Hawaii Island high school youth have completed training for eight-week summer internship programs with Hawaii Volcanoes National Park starting in June. The park’s non-profit partner, Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, was awarded grants from the Cooke Foundation, Ltd., the Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation, Kamehameha Schools Aina Education […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Eleven short films created by island students for the park’s Digital Mountain Film Festival are ready for viewing and voting on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalMountain2012?feature=watch. Each film is approximately three minutes in length. The last day to vote is Monday, Nov. 26. Send votes to Park Ranger Kupono McDaniel by email at kupono_mcdaniel@nps.gov. The public […]

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MEDIA RELEASE This week, 52 students from East Hawaii started spring internships with Hawaii Volcanoes National Park’s Youth Internship Program, part of the National Park Service’s Youth Partnership Program. One goal of the program is to train and hire 32 students to work part-time at Hawaii Volcanoes this summer. Some will become park rangers, others […]

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