Project Lemon Tree advisors met in Kona, Hawai’i at Hokukano Ranch where a 5 acre site has been prepared for a research project to study and determine best practices for how to optimize organic lemon tree growing in orchards at agricultural scale. Present were Tom Pace (Hokukano owner), Gill Berger (First Foundation Bank Advisor and Bizgenics Foundation Advisor), Steve Sue (Bizgenics Foundation and Project Lemon Tree founder) and Paul Marais and team (managing director of SOGA Organic, the South … [Read more...]
TECH-TONIC SHIFTS: Transforming Education Through Technology
A "Transforming Education Through Technology" brainstorm was held at the STEM Ecosystems Convening, October 22, 2019 in Cleveland, OH. The premise: technology is shaking traditional education to the core. To some, technology is creating amazing new worlds. To others, education has become a hazardous landscape of fractured faults. Technology & Education … [Read more...]
Teachers: How Does Your PBL Garden Grow?
Hey Teachers: We're back from the 2019 Fall convening of STEM Ecosystems, Cleveland, OH where we presented a mind-map exercise on how to make your PBL (Project-Based Learning) environment grow. In this process, we provided a handout that you can use to plan a holistic STEM + soft skills experience to make a "Whole Child" learning experience. PBL Whole-Child Growth Tips PBL Music Hack, Hawai’i-Style STEM + Soft Skills The session covered oh so many inter-disciplinary education topics as … [Read more...]
Music Hackathon: Creating an Anthem for the Hokulea
Last May, high school students from all Hawaiian Islands were flown in to Honolulu for a two-day music hack to create a new anthem for the Polynesian Voyaging Society's canoe, Hokulea, which will be departing on another round-the-world tour in a couple years. The event was graced by PVS founder, Nainoa Thompson, music legend Henry Kapono and a mobile sound studio by M&M. Under the leadership of Mark Loughridge, Bizgenics Foundation produced the hack as one of three at the STEM Works … [Read more...]
Lemonade Alley 2019
The Ninth Annual Lemonade Alley played on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at Pearlridge Center in Aiea, Hawai’i. Among proclamations by the Mayor's Office, Lemon Bank by American Savings Bank and Center Stage taste tests and 1-minute pitches, results this year included: 15,000+ event visitors 70 students in 16 teams 11 low-income schools represented $6,352 for charities of teams' choices 14 charities supported 1,864 cups served 70 volunteers (450 hours of donated time) Huge … [Read more...]
Lemonade Alley in Hilo, Hawai’i
Almost 9 years ago, Bizgenics planted its first "Lemonade Alley Event" seed in the soils of Pearl Ridge Center. Over $70,000 raised for charity later, the once seedling of a program, has grown and branched out to Hilo, a neighboring Island! Under the supervision of teacher, Leslie Walker, students from Waimea Elementary were taught more than just culinary and business skills through the program. They were taught good ethics and “It was about being together as a community and coming together … [Read more...]
Lemonade Alley Workshops Are Back!
Lemonade Alley Workshops Are Back! Last year Lemonade Alley was as great as a tall glass of Lemonade on a hot day, but all great things can always be better! In the previous years of Lemonade Alley, we would host workshops with actual chefs and business owners to teach the keiki all about the industries. However, Lemonade Alley 2018 provided a different, accessible, and alternative way of teaching kids about business and culinary; our very own, BizzyB.com. While the reviews for the new methods … [Read more...]
Lana’i Flies Bizgenics Out
Bizgenics Inspires Students on Lana'i Lana'i High School & Elementary School flies out Bizgenics' Steve Sue and Brannon Yamauchi to help guide and inspire kids. Over 300 students attended, and all of them have great potential to do big things in this world! Students Were Amazing These all-star students were incredibly excited, well behaved, and engaged. They really wanted to learn what we had to tell them about our industry. MAHALO! Big thank you to Lana'i High School & … [Read more...]
Project Lemon Tree: Jefferson Elementary School
More than just an educational citrus planting, the first Project Lemon Tree at Jefferson Elementary School taught the keiki a valuable lesson on "how to make lemonade out of lemons." In 2016, vandals had cold-heartedly burned down Jefferson Elementary School's playground along with the joy it once provided the keiki. Looking past the charred devastation, Principal Garret Zakahi's fire proof optimism beautified the hideous act into our inaugural Project Lemon Tree trellis planting. On July 21, … [Read more...]
WELCOME New Bizgenics Members!
Welcome to the Team! Thank you to everyone that attended Bizgenics Foundation's first advisory board meeting! On June 30th, 2018 Bizgenics Foundation had its first advisory board meeting. As our foundation grows so does the team. After discussing Bizgenics' programs, thanks to everyone's insightful advice, we have gained more direction in our endeavor to spread entrepreneurship and innovation through keiki! We can't thank you enough for coming aboard and attending the meeting! We will … [Read more...]
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