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MPIAA SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 15, 2008!

The MPI Alumni Association Scholarships are full-tuition, renewable awards offered to new students applying to enter grades six through twelve. These scholarships will be given to students who possess good character, exceptional artistic, academic, or athletic abilities, and the strong potential to make a significant contribution to Mid-Pacific Institute. Students must also demonstrate financial need.

The MPIAA Scholarship application deadline is February 15, 2008

For more information, please contact Alumni Director Kerry Gudoy
at alumni@midpac.edu or (808) 951-8856.

Click here for the MPIAA Scholarship application.

Posted on 9:16 AM| Permalink

Aloha MPI Alumni!

One of the initiatives for the alumni this year is Student Programs. The objective is to involve alumni in ways that allow them to interact with and support current MPI students (from pre-school-12th grade). There are seven main ideas:

1. Provide MPI faculty members the opportunity to invite MPI alumni to speak in their classrooms on topics of interest or in areas of expertise.
2. Provide mentoring to MPI students involved in competitions (such as a Science Fair).
3. Serve as judges for MPI competitions or presentations.
4. Be a presenter at a career day program.
5. Serve as a mentor for a student interested in a particular occupation.
6. Provide basic foreign language (Japanese, Chinese or Spanish) lessons (15 minutes in length) to the preschool/elementary school students.
7. Take the MPI school history "on the road" by meeting with students and sharing aspects of the school's past with them.
   

If you are interested in participating in any/all of the ideas listed above, please let me know. Upon replying, please provide me with the following information:

• Full name (include maiden if applicable)
• Class year
• Area you are interested in participating (classroom presenter, competition mentor, judge, career day presenster, occupation mentor, foreign language teacher, history presenter)
• Area of expertise (education, banking, technology, dance, etc.)
• Employer and job title (whether current or retired)

Please email your information to Alumni Director Kerry Gudoy at alumni@midpac.edu

Posted on 1:26 PM| Permalink

An alumni initiative that we will be working on this year is "Business Networking."

There are two main ideas:

    Career and Professional Development:
    -   Provide recent graduates access to experienced MPI alumni for career counseling, internships,
        and job opportunities
    -   Provide alumni access to recent graduates as a source of potential employees
    -   Provide all alumni an established network of successful MPI graduates
    Business Mentoring
    -   Develop a mechanism to facilitate interaction among alumni who might need a particular business service and
        vise versa
    -   Establish a semi-annual Business Networking Reception

As always, in order to make this happen, we do need the help of alumni volunteers.

Posted on 10:56 AM| Permalink