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Parker students ‘Make a Difference’

MEDIA RELEASE In celebration of national Make a Difference Day, Parker School students spent Friday, Oct. 25 out of the classroom and working in the community. Approximately 170 middle and upper schoolers divided into groups to help the following local organizations with maintenance, repair, cleanup and beautification: Kahilu Theatre; Kohala Watershed; Mama’s House; Parker Ranch […]

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Parker School hosts Heneghan Run (Nov. 9)

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School hosts its 14th Annual Heneghan Run on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event is open to the public and consists of a 1K Keiki Run and a 5K Fun Run. It was established in memory of Hawaii architect George Heneghan, who was also an accomplished athlete, teacher and coach. He coached cross-country […]

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Parker School wins debate sweepstakes trophy

MEDIA RELEASE The Parker School debate team, the current state champions, won the sweepstakes trophy Oct. 12 at the Debate Non-Qualifying Tournament at University Lab School on Oahu. The sweepstakes trophy goes to the school with the largest number of winning ballots and Parker, one of 13 schools that participated in the tournament, finished with […]

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Parker School launches Investment Club

MEDIA RELEASE On a given Monday during the school lunch hour, nine Parker School students can be found crunching numbers (and lunch) and performing company data analysis in the library. They are members of the school’s new Investment Club. The research they are doing is real and so is the money they will use to […]

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Matsunobu named National Merit Scholarship semifinalist

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School has announced senior Lysha Matsunobu is a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in the 59th annual National Merit Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), according to an NMSC press release, is “a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance” and was “established in 1955 specifically to conduct the annual National Merit […]

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Parker School student tracks asteroid

MEDIA RELEASE Over 39 intense days this summer, Parker senior Lysha Matsunobu operated a telescope to take images of a near-earth asteroid, and wrote her own computer software to precisely measure its position and calculate its orbit around the sun. Matsunobu joined 35 other top science students from around the U.S. and the world for […]

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Parker School back-to-school campout

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School held its annual middle and upper school beginning-of-year campout Aug. 29-30. The middle schoolers spent Thursday at Kalopa Park for a day of orientation and team-building activities, then returned to the Parker campus where they pitched their tents and set up for an evening of games, ghost stories and dancing. The […]

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Parker School announces new board members

MEDIA RELEASE The Parker School Board of Directors has announced the addition of four new board members who began their terms in July 2013: * Kenneth Fischer OD Fischer has been a practicing optometrist in Waimea since 1974. Originally from New York, he obtained both his bachelor’s degree and his medical degree from Pacific University. […]

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Parker School announces new faculty and staff

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School is pleased to announce new faculty and staff members beginning this 2013-2014 school year: Emily Pagliaro, Admissions Director Pagliaro holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Native American studies from the University of California, Davis. Having grown up on Oahu, she returned to Hawaii after college to work with various […]

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Parker School’s Kāko‘o fund campaign raises nearly $230,000

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School is pleased to announce that its Kāko‘o Fund campaign raised just under $230,000 for its Annual Fund for Education and for various projects, surpassing a $200,000 goal. The capital campaign ran from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. In addition to the Annual Fund, the funds will be allocated for […]

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Parker alumnus Tarnas receives Hughes Fellowship

MEDIA RELEASE Jesse Tarnas, a 2012 graduate of Parker School, recently received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Summer Research Fellowship at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The fellowship will support Tarnas, currently an astronomy student and rising sophomore at Wesleyan, in conducting research on exoplanets (planets that exist outside of our solar system). The […]

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Parker School’s STEMpede

MEDIA RELEASE On May 3, Parker School hosted STEMpede, an afternoon dedicated to exposing students to professional possibilities in the STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—fields. Approximately 20 presenters, most from Waimea, visited Parker to share about their particular professions. These included: veterinarian Dr. Jim Gressard; orthopedic surgeons and Parker parents Doug Hiller and Diane Payne; […]

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Tarnas wins scholarship to study language abroad

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School junior Maia Tarnas has been awarded one of approximately 625 National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarships for 2013-2014. The NSLI-Y program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly-taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion […]

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Parker School students receive awards

MEDIA RELEASE Parker School has announced the recipients of academic, arts, athletic and community service awards for the 2012-2013 school year: Senior Awards Headmaster’s Award: Tyler McCullough Parker School Trustees’ Award: Olivia Armandroff Richard Smart Award for Academic Excellence: Paul Gregg Personal Achievement Award: Jesse Burns Longevity Awards: Cody Brown, Jesse Burns, Carly Cappagli, Mariko […]

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