This past Tuesday there was an event at Windward Community College called Ka Pilina Community Day. The event took place in the evening from 6:00pm-7:30pm and consisted of booths put on by Ka Pilina and partners from the community. All booths were STEM related and tried to focus on showing that math is in everything. Participants at the event collected stamps on a stamp card by participating at different booths. At the end of the night people turned in the stamps for prizes and raffle tickets. We raffled off gift cards and a grand prize of a Dell Venue 8 tablet. There was also pizza and water for people to enjoy. The event was free and open to the Kamakau Community.
I was very blessed and thankful that a few STEM^2-ers came
out to support this event. Big Mahalo to
Waynele Yu, Hayden Atkins, and Ka’ai McAfee- Torco. This event wouldn’t have been as amazing as
it was without them. We had many
different activities for people to engage in: Watersheds, conservation, aquaponics with
alternative power sources, healthy hearts, fractions with minions, Java programming.
When the event first started I was a little bummed because
the turnout was so small, but everyone else seemed so excited. Then I realized it is all about
perspective. The whole half glass full
idea. It was small but that just meant
we could be more attentive to the students that were there and give them a more
individualized activity. We could let
students launch more water balloons then they were supposed to at their math
mentor, which students were definitely happy about. Then about 30 minutes into the event more
people started showing up, so all my disappointment in the beginning was
unnecessary. All in all it was a great event and a lot of fun for everyone. To see all the pictures from this event and or to see pictures from other previous community days you can follow this link: Past Ka Pilina Community Days. 
