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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School announces senior Kieran Najita has advanced as a finalist for a National Merit Scholarship Award. In September, Najita was notified he was one of 16,000 national semi-finalists out of the 50,000 highest scorers of the approximately 1.5 million high school students who take the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test) each year. [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE On Jan. 26, seven Parker School students competed in the Shakespeare Recitation Contest sponsored by the English Speaking Union. Senior Jesse Tarnas won the competition with his performance of a monologue from Hamlet. He will represent Parker School Feb. 25 at the state competition on Oahu. — Find out more: www.parkerschool.net

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MEDIA RELEASE On Jan. 20, Jeremy Leonard visited the Parker School campus to share his career journey with the 11th and 12th grade classes as part of Parker School’s Speaker Series. The series, started by Rea Callender, in September of 2005, has served as an excellent professional development opportunity for Parker students; bringing many well [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Fourteen schools from across the state participated Jan. 13-14 in the Neighbor Island Speech and Debate Qualifying Tournament at Parker School in Waimea. Kealakehe High School and Christian Liberty Academy were the other two Big Island schools in attendance, and Christian Liberty took first place in the Championship Lincoln Douglas category. Five Parker [...]

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On Saturday (Dec 17) the Parker School debate team brought home the first place trophy from this year’s final non-qualifying debate tournament at McKinley High School in Honolulu. Parker placed first for highest percentage of wins, and second for the highest number of wins (Punahou placed first for number of wins).

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School’s 9th annual Fairways & Friends Scholarship Golf Tournament took place Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Hualalai Resort. A total of 54 golfers turned out for the event from which all proceeds benefit the school’s financial aid and scholarship programs. Participants enjoyed playing 18 holes on the Hualalai course, followed by a [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School held its National Honor Society (NHS) induction ceremony on Monday, Dec. 5. The National Honor Society was founded in 1921 to recognize outstanding high school students, and four main purposes have guided chapters of NHS from the beginning: to create enthusiasm for scholarship; to stimulate a desire to render service; to [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School has announced the availability of two Richard Smart Scholar grants for the 2012-2013 school year. Each grant of $8,500 will be awarded to one incoming freshman and one current Parker School student entering the freshman class in the fall of 2012. These grants will be given to students exhibiting exceptional academic [...]

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Sunny afternoon dedication ceremony followed by two victories in inaugural matches

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MEDIA RELEASE To celebrate Thanksgiving, Parker School students, families, faculty and staff came together for the school’s annual Ohana Feast last Wednesday, Nov. 23. Students and their families brought food to share to go along with the imu-cooked turkey the senior class helped prepare. The school community also put together Thanksgiving baskets filled with holiday [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School has received a $50,000 grant from the First Hawaiian Bank Foundation for the creation of a new middle and upper school media studio. Victoria Hasty, vice-president of First Hawaiian Bank and Harold Hughes, vice-president and area manager of the Kamuela branch of First Hawaiian Bank, visited the school recently and presented [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School’s debate team tied with Punahou School for second place at a 16-team, statewide tournament Nov. 12 at Kahuku High School on Oahu. Twenty-four Parker high school students traveled to participate in the tournament, where Iolani School took first place. “It’s very gratifying to see how well our students match up with [...]

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