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Last weekend, Bizgenics Foundation produced a 100 percent virtual online hackathon in partnership with HIplan for the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College. It was a first in many ways that holds promise for the future of education beyond the current Coronavirus threat. See the Highlight Video »

Huge mahalo to sponsors Kamehameha Schools, Ulupono Initiative, County of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College. Thanks also to all the mentors, volunteers and staff for pulling this event off.

Read the News Release:

Amid COVID-19 Stay at Home Orders, Global Hackathon Runs 100 Percent Virtual Through Online Challenge-Based Learning System 

Students and Mentors Around the World Collaborate to Create Disaster Recovery Apps

HILO, HAWAII – Billed as the Aloha State’s first virtual hackathon, 4 teams of students from the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) and Hawaii Community College (HawCC) competed remotely from home locations as far away as Spain, Mexico, Washington and California to develop app-based solutions for lava recovery efforts from the 2018 Kilauea eruption. Mentors offered advice from remote locations as far away as Bangladesh, San Francisco and North Carolina. The HIplan Hackathon took place April 4 – 5, 2020 from 10am-5pm each day and $5,300 in cash prizes was awarded to winning teams.

$2,500 First Place went to Makamae Kamaka-Mauhili, Brian McMichael, Karly Requelman and Zoe Whitney of The Repair Crew for their Home Raisers App, $1,500 Second Place went to Kevianna Adams, Santos Gutierez, Ryen Helzer and Catherine Kane-Paulo of CommUnity Inc. for their Coconut Grove App, $1,000 Third Place went to Luca Checchia Adell, Casey Chow, Kevin Oh and Jena Shidaki of Double D for their Disaster Defense App, and $300 Fourth Place went to Alan Cincunegui Corres, Kapaia’alaopuna Earle and Garnett Stone Jr. of Second Responders for their Second Wave App.

“We were all set to run this hackathon when COVID-19 shut down schools so many of the students returned home to far-flung places around the globe,” said Jason Ueki, Executive Director of HIplan. “We were set to use BizzyB.com, an online challenge-based learning system for the hack and realized that we could run the hack remotely with BizzyB. The most surprising thing for me is that our hack turned into a truly global event with both students and mentors collaborating from remote locations around the world.”

Says mentor Phillipe Rosse, “This is a game-changer. With BizzyB, we realized that we can connect students and mentors in deeper and more efficient ways than ever before. The quality of ideas and attention to detail generated concepts that are infinitely more mature than your average hackathon contest. This takes hacks and STEM education to new heights. BizzyB represents the future of education.”

The goal of any hackathon is to challenge students to address real-world problems, in this case, conceptualizing app-based solutions to support Kilauea Volcano eruption recovery efforts facing Hawaii County. By participating in hands-on concept development activities, students learned leadership, collaboration, creative problem-solving and other “Soft Skills” that are increasingly demanded in today’s business world.

“When schools began closing due to Coronavirus, we made BizzyB entirely free for the rest of the school year,” says BizzyB author and Bizgenics Foundation Chairman Steve Sue. “The HIplan Hackathon is a smart, forward-looking application of BizzyB’s Contest Module created to serve in-class challenges, hackathons, business plan competitions and accelerators. We’re happy to support HIplan and other producers of innovation-based learning programs.”

BizzyB’s approach combines self-directed learning, 4Cs learning (Creativity, Critical-Thinking, Collaboration & Communication), STEM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) and SEL (Social Emotional Learning). The result is an online innovation Concept Canvas where student teams collaborate on five essential themes of an innovation project. This canvas supports remote collaboration via sidebar comment channels, built-in feedback surveys, pitch deck builder and showcase presentation functions. Mentors can view team content and advise remotely from anywhere, anytime. Team members also experience corporate leadership roles serving as facilitators of the five themes. 21st Century Soft Skill measurement standards are measured in the system by pre- and post-project user surveys. Outcomes are reported through contest public pages and through individual student portfolios that feature project summaries, awards, certifications, badges and Soft Skill assessments.

The event was sponsored by Kamehameha Schools, Ulupono Initiative, County of Hawaii, UH Hilo, and HawCC. It is being produced by the Hawaii Island Business Plan Competition (HIplan) and the nonprofit Bizgenics Foundation.

Judges included Melanie Wilson, Dean of Liberal Arts & Public Services at HawCC, tech entrepreneur Steve Sakoman of Steve Sakoman Inc., and Chris Rehkamp, former Program Manager at the Digital Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Mentors included Director of Accelerator Operations at Elemental Excelerator Sherrie Totoki in San Francisco, Americas Advisory Learning Leader Louise Lorton of Ernst & Young in North Carolina, Phillipe Rosse from RFP Match, North Carolina. Facilitators included local entrepreneur Mike Nakamura, former tech executive Wayne Morris, and retired tech professional Walter McCoy.

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In an age of Coronavirus COVID-19, Bizgenics’ BizzyB Team remains 100% viable working from home and offers free use of BizzyB, the online student innovation platform for the balance of the school year.

Bizgenics’ BizzyB Team 100% Viable

In observance of social distancing, our development systems were upgraded for Dhaka team members to work from home. Luckily, most team members are gamers with good machines and bandwidth. Meanwhile, our Honolulu office has always been fully remote, so we’re among the lucky organizations that remains in full operations. You’ve heard it on every communication channel but it cannot be emphasized enough to observe social distancing, hand-washing, etc. While many, even most, will never even know they had the virus, the threat is passing the disease on to an elder. We’re doing our part and we urge all others to as well.

Free Use of BizzyB Online Student Innovation Platform

We’re also taking an additional step to provide solutions for public and private schools around the globe by offering free access to the BizzyB online learning platform for the balance of the academic year. This project-based learning program connects students, parents, educators, curriculum authors, contest producers, education institutions, and employers into an innovation and entrepreneurial online community.

“With our K-12 schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to engage even more students in fun, productive, safe and at-home learning exercises that prepare kids for college and careers,” said Bizgenics founder and chairman Steve Sue. “We’re also happy to run special BizzyB sessions for teachers participating in the Hawaii Department of Education’s Professional Development Training program.”

Utilizing project-based learning, the software differs from traditional curriculum by focusing on hands-on activities that investigate topics based around central themes and questions. Some of BizzyB’s unique features include the ability to compete in contests or hackathons which allow students to generate personal digital portfolios; assessment of students’ 21st Century “soft skills” such as leadership, communication, teamwork and responsibility; and virtual mentoring in real-time.

Design research to date includes studying innovative learning processes with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s LaunchX high school feeder program and with the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Center on Disability Studies. BizzyB will also be used to power the upcoming HIplan Hackathon from April 4-5, 2020. This contest, sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College, will now be run virtually with technology mentors from the east and west coasts of the mainland as well as top-level programmers from our coding team in Bangladesh.

For more information, contact Steve Sue (steve[at]bizgenics.org) or Contact Us »

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Washington, DC—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) today announced Jasmine Cadotte, a sophomore at Kalāheo High School in Kailua, Oʻahu, as the winner of the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for Hawaiʻi’s second congressional district. Cadotte developed an app called Fake News Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to sift through news stories on social media and analyzes the credibility of its sources.

Top Awards to Oahu & Island of Hawai’i & Maui

“I was inspired to create this app because as a user of technology in our modern society, I am constantly surrounded by fake news that is disguised all over the internet. It can be very difficult to determine whether or not a source is reliable,” Cadotte said. “This tool saves people the time and effort of sorting through news to find out if it is reliable information.”

Second place went to Morgan Dean, a senior at Hawaiʻi Preparatory in Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island, whose app Media Manager helps wrangle duplicate files and unorganized folders. Third place went to the team of Hunter Shields and Conner Kong, juniors at Maui High in Kahului, Maui. Their app Maui XC Maps provides easy access to maps of cross country running routes on Maui. Honorable mention went to the Maui High team of freshmen Josh Patrick Lachica and Jordan Shim. Their app ProgressTracker graphs scores in air riflery to track friendly competition.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said: “Hawaiʻi’s youth are incredibly talented, and they bring fresh perspectives to our society’s challenges. The Congressional App Challenge is one way for us to recognize the creativity, innovation, and coding abilities of our students. Congratulations to Jasmine, Morgan, Hunter, Conner, Josh and Jordan, and mahalo nui loa to all of the students who submitted an app, the judges, teachers, and parents who support our students, and our community for prioritizing STEM skills that set our future leaders up for success.”

Judged by Bizgenics, SaferKids & 47scapes

This year’s panel of local Congressional App Challenge judges included Steve Sue, Chairman of Bizgenics Foundation; Cheyenne Ehrlich, Founder and CEO of SaferKid, and; Peter Liu, Founder of 47scapes.

About the Congressional App Challenge

The Congressional App Challenge inspires, includes, and innovates efforts around STEM, coding, and computer science education among middle and high school students in Hawai‘i and across the country. The winners of the Congressional App Challenge will be invited to Washington, DC in the Spring of 2020 to showcase their apps at the #HouseofCode event in the U.S. Capitol.

The Congressional App Challenge is championed by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is serving her fourth term in the United States House representing Hawaii’s Second District, and serves on the House Armed Services and Financial Services Committees. She previously served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Homeland Security Committee. She was elected to the Honolulu City Council in 2010, and prior to that at age 21, was elected to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 2002, becoming the youngest person ever elected in the state. Tulsi Gabbard has served in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard for 16 years, is a veteran of two Middle East deployments, and continues to serve as a Major.

Photo Credit: “EXTRA! EXTRA!” by Filip Jovceski is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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This year, Bizgenics Foundation Chairman Steve Sue joined 34 STEM practitioners from around the country on the Executive Advisory Committee of STEM Ecosystems Community of Practice. Over the course of the year, meetings were convened in New Orleans, Cleveland and online to think forward promising STEM Ecosystem practices. Governance structures, funding models, partnering models, convening styles, STEM programming and evaluation methodologies were considered to better meet the needs of regional participants from across the United States and several foreign country regions.

What became apparent was that most ecosystems are highly unique in that STEM education is a reflection of employer workforce skill demands. Further, educational approaches paired varied from highly traditional approaches to nouveau project-based learning models. such findings underscore the need to avoid one-size-fits-all solutions and the fostering of a deep understanding of what drives ecosystem demands. Many regional partnerships evolved as a result of getting to know others’ regional challenges and needs.

Also joining STEM Ecosystems at the Fall Convening in Cleveland, OH was Bizgenics Foundation’s COO Tim Caminos who helped Steve present “Transforming Education Through Technology”, a roundtable session attended by 70 STEM Ecosystems members from around the country and beyond.

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At Project Lemon Tree, we’re hard at work with partners University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR), SOGA Organics from South Africa and Hokukano Ranch of Kona to find the best rootstocks for Lemons, Limes & Other Citrus in Hawai’i.

School Lemon Tree Plantings

Over the course of the last year, we’ve raised hundreds of rootstocks and grafted eureka and meyer lemon varieties for school planting projects. Just yesterday, we made a couple hundred more trees available to our school partners. The current 2019 cohort of new planting schools is 501 classes at 27 schools on all Hawaiian islands except Lanai (we’ll get the started soon too!).

Project Lemon Tree Orchards – Best Rootstock Research

We’re now diving into orchard production as several schools wish to plant at scale as do several ranchers. To do this responsibly, we’re engaged in determining best growing conditions, protocols and plant varieties. Says Mike Melzer of CTAHR, “Rootstocks are something… to experiment with since so much depends on the location, soil, irrigation.  Hawaii also has blight (like South Africa) so some people like to use less vigorous, but blight tolerant rootstock such as cleopatra.  However most new citrus grown in Hawaii is on a trifoliate hybrid rootstock since most of the trees are grafted in California (which doesn’t have blight).  These vigorous rootstocks are good for producing sooner after planting, but will experience higher losses to blight after about 8 years, so you can expect to reset a lot of trees – this can sometimes be a good thing for switching to more desirable varieties.  Florida has produced some rootstocks with good blight tolerance, but I don’t know of any planting in Hawaii with these rootstocks.  So bottom line is try several different rootstocks and see which emerges as the best for the location.

Stay tuned for more on this important research.

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Project Lemon Tree advisors met in Kona, Hawai’i at Hokukano Ranch where a 5 acre site has been prepared for a research project to study and determine best practices for how to optimize organic lemon tree growing in orchards at agricultural scale. Present were Tom Pace (Hokukano Ranch owner), Gill Berger (First Foundation Bank Advisor and Bizgenics Foundation Advisor), Steve Sue (Bizgenics Foundation and Project Lemon Tree founder) and Paul Marais and team (managing director of SOGA Organic, the South African organic citrus growers association).

We are very thankful that the SOGA team took the time (and 26 hours of flight time) to make the trip from South Africa to share leading-edge secrets on how to grow organic lemons at scale. For the past 18 years, SOGA has been a leader in global organic citrus production. Over two weeks, the team looked deeply into Hawaii’s conditions for growing citrus as well as directing site preparations and laying out a 5-acre test site.

A 5-Acre Research Project

Project Lemon Tree is excited to join forces with Hokukano Ranch and SOGA Organics in this research project to determine best-practices for organic lemon orchard production. We see this project as important to advising on our school orchard programs as well as championing a new agricultural economic development initiative for Hawaii-grown lemons and limes. This research project is designed to define best-growing practices for Hawai’i citrus in a small experiment before large acreage is installed. SOGA has a specific planting and testing protocol that has been used for over a decade to determine best practices. Over the next 3 years, the goal is to dial in optimal recipes and identify key variables that are most relevant to Hawai’i growing. Following this first phase project, hundreds of acres both at Hokukano and other partner ranches will be installed.

Hawaii Deemed a Best Site for Lemons

The SOGA team was extremely excited with the Hokukano site as a premiere site to grow citrus. They spent time studying surrounding plants for insects, disease and fungi as well as soils, wind shear, water supply and other conditions. The bottom line for SOGA was that the site was the best that they have ever seen including key comments related to site being amazingly clean, protected and well-suited to lemon orchard production.

A Hawai’i Bill to Make Lemons 100% Locally-Sustainable

Phase 2 of this program is to work with a number of partnering ranches to meet with demand for 100% of Hawaii’s whole lemon demand. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, estimates Hawai’i whole lemon demand at 4.2M lbs/year. This equates to 200-250 acres of lemon tree orchards. SOGA recommended strongly that we work with our state legislature to make our region 100% self-sustaining by creating a local law to outlaw importation of whole fruit as soon as possible. The rationale for this is that Hawai’i is one of the few places on the plant that has not been infected by the citrus green virus HLB, so it’s important to both Hawai’i and the world supply of lemons. This also applies to other citrus like limes.

The Business of Citrus & How to ROI

Phase 3 of this project is to produce lemons and limes beyond local demand for export. Lemons and limes on the mainland US are in peril with mainland supply chains decimated by the HLB virus. Mexico, Florida, Texas and California trees are all within HLB areas now. For example, Florida has lost 70% of all citrus trees in the past 3 years and the rest will die within the next 3 years. Distribution plans are already in the works to export lemons and limes to big box buyers via return route cold shipping routes that are currently shipping cool cases back to the mainland empty. This distribution chain is a fallow opportunity that can help make this new industry a highly profitable agricultural option for Hawai’i.

High-Regulation & Legal Designations for Global Markets

Sessions included deep discussions on organic growing methods, legal designation, regulation and business modeling are so integrally tied. Organic designations vary around the world so planning to meet most stringent regulations for target markets is essential. Since many organic practices require up to 3 years of consistent practice before products can be sold, forward planning is essential to success.

Manago Hotel Restaurant

BTW, if you’re ever in Kona, check out the Manago Hotel Restaurant. It’s the oldest restaurant in Hawai’i and known for their pork chops (2 pork chops, caramelized onions, bacon strips, gravy, veggies, rice). Ono (fish) also a favorite.

Stay tuned for the continuing story on how to grow organic lemon tree orchards. If you wish to partner or have questions, Contact Us »

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A “Transforming Education Through Technology” brainstorm was held at the STEM Ecosystems Convening, October 22, 2019 in Cleveland, OH. The premise: technology is shaking traditional education to the core. To some, technology is creating amazing new worlds. To others, education has become a hazardous landscape of fractured faults.

Technology & Education

Steve Sue of Bizgenics Foundation kicked off the session with a history of how technology has driven education through economic eras then stepped aside to let the big dogs bark…

4 Big Dog Breakouts

Session participants were asked to join one of four breakout sessions to explore trends, tools, applications and concerns of digital technology in education. The four breakouts:

Education Policy: facilitated by Natasha Smith Walker of Illinois and Vince Stewart of California

Learning Systems: facilitated by Lisa Blank of New York, Katie Grootegoed of Ohio & Timothy Caminos of Hawai’i

Skill Assessments: facilitated by Pavi Lakshminarayan of New Jersey and Winnie Black of Pennsylvania

Career Pathways: facilitated by Beth Demke of North Dakota and Latrenda Leonard Sherrill of Pennsylvania

This session concludes with breakout teams sharing brainstorm results. See Session Notes »

Tech-Tonic Shifts: Transforming Education Through Technology

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The Ninth Annual Lemonade Alley played on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at Pearlridge Center in Aiea, Hawai’i. Among proclamations by the Mayor’s Office, Lemon Bank by American Savings Bank and Center Stage taste tests and 1-minute pitches, results this year included:

15,000+ event visitors

70 students in 16 teams

11 low-income schools represented

$6,352 for charities of teams’ choices

14 charities supported

1,864 cups served

70 volunteers (450 hours of donated time)

Huge Mahalo to presenting sponsors: SuperGeeks and SaaS Ventures.

Special thanks to teacher and adult sponsors Amy Santos, Sandi Brekke, Dana Vuong, Asia Engle, Lindy Ishimine, Hilliary Pilialoha, Christopher Castillo, Louella Cuddles King, Giliw Abenes and Coreen Lei Dijos. You guys make it all possible for the kids to participate.

And congrates to all teams: 808Lemonz, Ocean-Aid, Ewa’s Finest, LemonAid for Love, Narwolves, Ono Wishes, Royal Lemons, Life is short…Live it with ZEST, Lemon Heaven, Sweet N Sour Burst, Seahorse Squeezies, Kalihi Wai Lemi, N.S. Refreshments, Aloha Lemonade, Get Some Lemonade and Da Sour Flower. You all were AMAZING!!!

And now some pics by our fabulous photo crew (Cliff Kimura, Dennis Burns, Linda Sue, Brannon Yamauchi):

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Last May, high school students from all Hawaiian Islands were flown in to Honolulu for a two-day music hack to create a new anthem for the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s canoe, Hokulea, which will be departing on another round-the-world tour in a couple years. The event was graced by PVS founder, Nainoa Thompson, music legend Henry Kapono and a mobile sound studio by M&M. Under the leadership of Mark Loughridge, Bizgenics Foundation produced the hack as one of three at the STEM Works conference. Two other hacks, a 3D printing coral anchor design challenge and an app development challenge to create a bird watching app for the Manu O Ku (white tern)

STEM + Soft Skills

We produce hacks that combine multi-disciplinary learning, both in terms of foundational knowledge mastery like STEM as well as soft skills like 4Cs (creativity, critical-thinking, collaboration and communication skills). On the STEM side, music is highly mathematical, has formulaic notation language and requires highly technical engineering skills to produce. As part of the hack, each student had to participate in sound recording engineering in a professional recording studio. At the same time, because the hack was arranged in teams, 4Cs skills were taught by first-hand experience.

An Ocean of Outcomes

Songs developed over the two-days were so good that Nainoa thought up a concept of “Lei of Song” which will entail students at upcoming port of calls to write their own verse of the anthem and record it to be placed onto a global lei of music that encircles the world. Work to create the final anthem is in the works with the possibility of an album created to feature candidate pieces created at the hack. Listen to compositions:

Hokuea

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hokulea-e_2-by-Nalea-selenarobertnoah.mp3

Fishes in the Sea

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Fishes-in-The-Sea_2-Group-2-Laulea-ikaiapueowailea-loane.mp3

Spreading Aloha

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Spreading-Aloha_2_CJS.mp3

Listen to the Ocean

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Listen-to-too-Ocean_2_Group-1_JD-Joharah-Xander.mp3

Stand as One

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/King-Kekaulike-HS-Team-3_Final-22Stand-As-One22.mp3

See

http://bizgenics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/See_2-JanelynAndretiffany.wav

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Hey Teachers: We’re back from the Fall convening of STEM Ecosystems, Cleveland, OH where we presented a mind-map exercise on how to make your PBL (Project-Based Learning) environment grow. In this process, we provided a handout that you can use to plan a holistic STEM + soft skills experience to make a “Whole Child” learning experience.

PBL Whole-Child Growth Tips

Tips and tricks were shared by active PBL “gardeners” from around the country who nurture flourishing PBL environments within their ecosystems.  Five presenters shared STEM-focused PBL growth techniques, each highlighting essential seeds of success from their regions, tips for supporting growth and development, and pest management techniques. Attendees left prepared with an action plan that features stakeholder identification, soft skills integration, strategic partners, resources, challenges, and outcomes. More specifically, the session focused on the following LEARNING GOALS:

Creating a PBL Theory of Change

Identifying Stakeholders and Strategic Partnerships

Defining Essential PBL Program Elements

Addressing Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges

Envisioning Outcomes & Impacts

Understanding Strategies Applied by STEM Ecosystems Already Implementing PBL

How Does Your PBL Garden Grow? from Steve Sue

PBL Music Hack, Hawai’i-Style

Our part in the presentation was to highlight a music hackathon we ran earlier this year at the STEM Works Conference. In this hack, high school students from all Hawaiian islands were flown into Honolulu for a two-day hack to create a new anthem for the Hawaiian canoe, Hokulea’s next world tour (a complete circumnavigation of the globe). Hawaiian cultural treasures Nainoa Thompson and Henry Kapono lead the kids and amazing things happened. The presentation deck is shown at right and one of the songs was played.

Music Hackathon: Hokulea Anthem from Steve Sue

STEM + Soft Skills

The session covered oh so many inter-disciplinary education topics as well as combined STEM content mastery and the latest in soft skills development through project-based learning techniques. Key themes covered:

PBL Theory of Change

STEM / content skills

Professional Skills (4Cs, SEL)

PBL Assessments (4Cs, SEL, Digital Portfolios)

Meeting Standards

Value to ALL students

Student Outcomes & Impacts.

Download the Handout

We’re happy to share the PBL handout ~ please be sure to share your thoughts on how to push this further, or if we got it perfect, rain kudos down upon us. Download 145K PDF »

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Lemonade Alley Branches Out to Hilo

Almost 9 years ago, Bizgenics planted its first “Lemonade Alley Event” seed in the soils of Pearl Ridge Center. Over $70,000 raised for charity later, the once seedling of a program, has grown and branched out to Hilo, a neighboring Island!

Under the supervision of teacher, Leslie Walker, students from Waimea Elementary were taught more than just culinary and business skills through the program. They were taught good ethics and “It was about being together as a community and coming together as a school.”

For more information on how Waimea Elementary’s first lemonade alley event went, please visit: https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2019/04/09/features/lemonade-alley-teaches-entrepreneurship-to-waimea-students/

The Lemonade Neighborhoods

Hearing about Lemonade Alley reaching another island really excites Bizgenics for the future of the program. Eventually, the foundation would like to envision a state wide Lemonade Alley event, with the best teams from every school district in Hawaii participating. Bizgenics agrees with the students at Waimea Elementary, “they believe other schools ought to expand the program and bring lemonade and opportunities for entrepreneurship to their own students (Hawaiitribune-Herold.com).” Could this be the start to the Foundation’s dreams coming true?

Anyways, that’s it for now! Remember, where ever there are lemons, theres an opportunity to make Lemonade!

  For more information on Lemonade Alley, please visit LemonadeAlley.com

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Lemonade Alley Workshops Are Back!

Last year Lemonade Alley was as great as a tall glass of Lemonade on a hot day, but all great things can always be better! In the previous years of Lemonade Alley, we would host workshops with actual chefs and business owners to teach the keiki all about the industries. However, Lemonade Alley 2018 provided a different, accessible, and alternative way of teaching kids about business and culinary; our very own, BizzyB.com. While the reviews for the new methods of teaching were well received, we have decided that there is no school like the old school and brought back the Lemonade Stand 101 Workshops for all schools on Oahu!

Lemonade Stand 101 with Queen Liliuokalani Trust

Lemonade Alley Crew visits Queen Liliuokalani Trust to personally teach the students all about creating a successful lemonade stand, then it was off to races! Students came up with their own creative Lemonade Stand themes and WOW’d all the parents with their impressive, new-found Marketing knowledge!

If your School would like to participate in Lemonade Alley 2019, please visit LemonadeAlley.com. Available spaces are running out, so Sign Up ASAP!

If you would like Lemonade Stand 101 Workshops for Lemonade Alley 2019 at your School, please go to https://lemonadealley.com/contact.

Mahalo and see you on event day (April 20th, 2019)!

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Waialae Elementary Gives Lessons on Creating Lemon Tree Homes

Bizgenics Foundation learns how to design pots from Waialae Elementary’s best! Mr.Hervey’s 3rd grade class of expert painters and ornamental designers envision and create their Lemon Tree’s ideal potted homes. Each student was tasked with decorating their pot, naming their trees, and creating a title stake to claim ownership.

Responsibility and Ownership

When tasked with the new responsibilities of taking care of their very own lemon tree, the keiki faced the challenge head-on! With paint, stickers and other arts n’ craftables the keiki were able to illustrate their fantastic artistic expression through the PLT: Design-Thinking Lemon Tree Home workshops! 

Upon creating and naming their lemon trees, the students gain a sense of responsibility for the trees. Above and beyond, they will compete with each other to learn how to grow trees bigger and fastest!

Own your Lemon Trees Today!

If you would like Project Lemon Tree at your HI school, then please visit ProjectLemonTree.com for more info!

Sponsors a School

Project Lemon Tree is looking for sponsors to provide trees and curriculums for school across Hawaii. Sponsors donations will be honored with benefits as well. Please visit projectlemontree.com/sponsor for more info!

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Bizgenics Inspires Students on Lana’i

Lana’i High School & Elementary School flies out Bizgenics’ Steve Sue and Brannon Yamauchi to help guide and inspire kids. Over 300 students attended, and all of them have great potential to do big things in this world!

Students Were Amazing

These all-star students were incredibly excited, well behaved, and engaged. They really wanted to learn what we had to tell them about our industry.

MAHALO!

Big thank you to Lana’i High School & Elementary School for inviting and flying us out to your career day! Bizgenics had a wonderful time talking with all the kids and helping them find their interest! We hope to see them in the work force very soon!

Thank you again Lana’i we hope to do more work with you in the future!

Lanai School info: http://www.edline.net/pages/lhes

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In Lemonade Alley 2018, team Lemonaid for Love won the “Gyotaku’s Choice Award.” Owner of Gyotaku, Tom Jones, gave the Lemonaid for Love girls the opportunity to have their famous “Pina Colada Limonada” lemonade recipe featured on the restaurants menu. Tom also wanted to help the girls out even more by generously donating $1 off the top each lemonade to a charity of Lemonaid for Love’s choice!

Lemonaid for Love holding $1000 check from Gyotaku

Over the summer until October 31st, Gyotaku and and Lemonaid for Love raised over eight-hundred dollars! Above and Beyond, Gyotaku topped off the donation to make it a rounded one-thousand dollars donated to the Water4Life Charity! This charity will help hundred of people live better lives by providing new water wells in Nepal.

Throughout the years, Lemonaid for Love has been donating their earnings to Water4Life and has provided the funds for over 40 water wells now!

We love to see our event inspire relations and provide gifts that keep giving! Great on you both!

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Project Kaimuki Lemon Tree is a GO!

THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Project Lemon Tree’s branch!

On September 26th, 2018, Kaimuki Middle School and Project Lemon Tree team have made plans to see lemons in the NEAR future! Thank you to all the staff that were involved in the meeting! We really appreciate the enthusiasm we saw, and are excited to be working with you in the near future! Special thanks to Aive Bryant for the introductions!

Another Mahalo to SuperGeeks Hawaii for powering this video!

PROJECT LEMON TREE IS an eco-preneur program for students, grades K-12, that teaches the importance of ecological and food sustainability through hands-on innovation, entrepreneurial and community-building experiences.

SPONSOR A TREE at: https://ecoopps.com/lemon-tree-sponsor/

GET YOUR SCHOOL A FREE LEMON TREE at: https://ecoopps.com/lemon-tree-site/

LEARN MORE at: https://bizgenics.org/project-lemon-tree/

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Lemonade Alley Opens for Entries

Lemonade Alley for Earth Day’s 2018 PSA video strikes attention on facebook, and the entries came flooding in! Be sure to reserve your teams spot before its too late!

Thanks for Making This Happen

The lead, Emily from Diamond Head Theatre, did such an excellent job on this shoot! We could not have asked for a better actress!

Big thank you and awesome job to the actors and actresses at Hawaii’s Best Model and Talent agency! And a few special mahalos to our very own, Kimee Balmilero for directing, as well as Eat Cake Gallery for providing video production! One last thank you to Impact Hub for providing the set!

Much Mahalo guys!

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