Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 2, 1 February 2010 — Noguchi scholarships awarded [ARTICLE]

Noguchi scholarships awarded

Nā Pua No'eau has announced the recipients of this year's Hideo Noguchi Scholarship for the Advancement of Native Hawaiians for students who have participated in Nā Pua No'eau, the program for gifted and talented children of Hawaiian ancestry, based at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. OHA is a major funder of NPN. Students awarded the scholarship through 2010 are: • Aubrey Kealohilani Matsuura, a sophomore at UH-Mānoa majoring in natural resource and environmental management with a minor in Hawaiian language, would like to heeome an educator. • Ariana Ka'ano'ikehauikūlō'ihia Kaliliokū Akaka, a UH-Mānoa freshman majoring in Hawaiian studies and Hawaiian language, aspires to be a Hawaiian educator. • Taysha-Fei Kapua DeSa, a freshman at UH Mānoa, plans to heeome a pediatrician and open a practice in Hawai'i, where she ean serve her community. • Malia Miehele Schneider, who is pursuing an MBA at UH Mānoa, aims to work in legislative advocacy on behalf of Native Hawaiians. • Byron Keli'i Poya, a UH-Hilo sophomore majoring in agriculture with an emphasis on aquaculture, would like to manage his own aquaculture farm in Hilo and promote sustainable practices that couldprovide eeonomie development for Hilo. • Stanton Souza, a freshman at UH Mānoa studying meehanieal engineering, wants to work as a meehanieal engineer so he ean build eco-friendly machines and promote self-sufficiency in Hawai'i. ■