ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY News
IPA Alumna is Animating with Passion
| Alumni
Island Pacific Academy alumna Erica Machida ‘15 has always had a passion for drawing, and she has turned it into an international career in animation. Machida may not be famous yet, but she already boasts an impressive creative portfolio, including her short 2D animated film, "Musubi".
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Grade 7 Students Use Design Thinking to Create Ornaments
| Academic News, Arts
As their final class project, Grade 7 Design Technology students were challenged to use the design thinking process to create a home ornament using one of three types of structures – an illustration on a wood cutout, a pierced out image and or word, or a tab and slot design that transformed a 2D design into a 3D object.
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IPA Students Discuss Community Issues with Micah Kāne, CEO of the Year
| Academic News, Secondary, Upper School
Twelve ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY Secondary students had the unique opportunity to take part in the Hawaii Business Magazine CEO of the Year virtual event on December 11, 2020 with honoree Micah Kāne, CEO and President of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation.
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Learning through creating: students express themselves through music composition
| Academic News, Arts, Secondary, Upper School
Students in Ms. Healy’s music class can list music composition on their list of skills now that their music trimester has concluded. And they have their own original pieces of work to prove it. As their final class project, students were asked to compose and write their own original song and lyrics about any topic of their choice, as long as it followed IPA’s 5 agreements of aloha, mālama, hoʻolohe, kuleana, and pono.
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Founding student and alumna returns to join IPA’s administrative team
| Alumni
There’s no place like home! Kelsey Uehira ‘11 says it’s great to be back on campus. Kelsey joined the IPA administrative staff in November as the Registrar & Student Information Systems Manager.
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IPA Certified as Blue Zones Project School and Worksite
| Academic News, Community, Elementary, Middle School, School, Secondary, Upper School
ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY celebrated being certified as a Blue Zones Project School and Worksite on Wednesday, November 25, becoming the very first school in the Kapolei area to receive certification as both a school and a worksite.
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