Congratulations to Candace Kanja for being granted the 2009 Siemens Teacher Award for AP Teachers (Calculus). She was one of only 50 teachers nationwide to be granted this honor, and is the only teacher from Hawaii to receive this prestigious award. From this, MPI will receive a $1,000 grant from Siemens to support math education.
"I feel honored and flattered to have won the Siemens Award," Kanja said. "I know several past winners, and I feel honored to be included in that group of teachers. My receiving this award is a reflection of the strength of the entire mathematics program at MPI. Because learning math is a cumulative process, the success that the AP Calculus students and I have enjoyed is the result of my colleagues providing students with a solid foundation in all of the pre-calculus concepts."
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This week, students in MPI social studies teacher Raleigh Werberger's IB History of the Americas class presented final projects to their peers as well as teachers and staff.
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The course project was a survey of modern racial and gender inequalities in the US, and the connections to the origins and goals of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s, which they studied as they constructed their exhibits.
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In late July, Mid Pacific IB students hosted IB students from Liverpool College, England in an international cultural exchange. Six families of IB Diploma students graciously opened up their homes to IB students from England for a home stay. Many thanks to the families of Andrew Erwin (2011) Elise Ishida (2010), Nijitoshi Nakajima (2011) Matt Oda (2011); Nijitoshi Nakajima; Tanner Whyte (2010) and Victoria Zeuner (2010) for hosting twelve of the fourteen visiting students.
Our visitors were particularly thrilled to receive flower lei for the first time in their lives. They carefully boxed them up at the end of the day, storing them in refrigerators, hoping they would make it back to their homes on the other side of the world.
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