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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island youth are accelerating academically and transforming their futures by participating in summer university programs made accessible with scholarships from The Kohala Center. The programs, held at institutions such as Cornell University and Brown University, expose Hawaii Island students to leadership and academic development opportunities that catalyze greater achievement and new career […]

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MEDIA RELEASE U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the selection of Parker School senior Lysha Matsunobu as a 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Matsunobu is one of 141 outstanding American high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, service, and contribution to school and community. The U.S. Presidential Scholars […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School senior Lysha Matsunobu has been selected as a 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program semifinalist. Out of close to 3.2 million graduating high school seniors from across the U.S., more than 4,000 were identified as candidates for the program. Matsunobu is one of 565 semifinalists selected from this group and the only […]

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PRESS RELEASE MATSUNOBU ADVANCES AS A NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALIST Senior Lysha Matsunobu has advanced as a National Merit Scholarship Program finalist. She was notified in September that she was one of approximately 16,000 national semi-finalists out of the 50,000 highest scorers of the approximately 1.5 million high school students who took the Preliminary Scholastic […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School has announced senior Lysha Matsunobu is a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in the 59th annual National Merit Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), according to an NMSC press release, is “a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance” and was “established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Over 39 intense days this summer, Parker senior Lysha Matsunobu operated a telescope to take images of a near-earth asteroid, and wrote her own computer software to precisely measure its position and calculate its orbit around the sun. Matsunobu joined 35 other top science students from around the U.S. and the world for […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Recent Parker School student achievements include: Zen Michael Kuriyama and Corey Patton won the Shakespeare Recitation Contest and Poetry Out Loud Competition respectively. Zen, who represented Parker School on Oahu two years ago in the Poetry Out Loud, prevailed with a monologue from Twelfth Night, performing Duke Orsino. Corey Patton triumphed over 11 […]

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