{"id":54869,"date":"2017-01-10T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=54869"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:48:31","slug":"make-the-ala-wai-awesome-challenge-now-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/10\/make-the-ala-wai-awesome-challenge-now-accepting-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Ala Wai Awesome challenge now accepting applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fpJhYTM_8KY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawaichallenge.org\/\">Ala Wai Watershed Student Design Challenge<\/a> is now accepting applications from students of all ages. The brightest student minds at 糖心Vlog官方 and beyond are invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawaichallenge.org\/\">Make the Ala Wai Awesome!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The student teams are challenged to imagine a comprehensive, systems-thinking approach toward watershed management from mauka to makai (from the mountains to the sea). The Ala Wai Watershed encompasses key 糖心Vlog官方 assets and facilities, thousands of homes and businesses and the Waik&#299;k&#299; district that drives much of the state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/06\/students-around-the-world-challenged-to-make-the-ala-wai-awesome\/\">Students around the world challenged to Make the Ala Wai Awesome<\/a><\/em>, September 6, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team proposals should include: ecosystem restoration, flood mitigation, community education and engagement, cultural connections, community access, mobility and recreation and economic health and resiliency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/zepr4xd6i8wo7gt\/UnivHawaii-AlaWaiStudentChallenge-DesignBrief-2017.01.09.pdf\">Full details on the challenge are available for download (<small>PDF<\/small>).<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p>Student teams must first complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/hawaii.edu\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSduM7aUNV473kCKQCIsXp_Xh7EASRuxLF4uULHm_uaypkkEQg\/viewform?c=0&#038;w=1\">online registration form<\/a> by January 31, 2017. A 4-digit anonymous identification number will be provided to all eligible and registered teams after the registration period has closed.<\/p>\n<p>Once teams are registered, submissions should be made via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/filedrop\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> FileDrop system<\/a> with <a href=\"mailto:alawai@hawaii.edu\">alawai@hawaii.edu<\/a> in the &ldquo;Recipient&rdquo; field. Submissions will be accepted until March 17, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The international challenge, sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a>, includes $10,000 in total prize money. First place winners will be awarded across four categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary (K&#8211;5): $1,000<\/li>\n<li>Middle\/Intermediate (6&#8211;8): $2,000<\/li>\n<li>High School (9&#8211;12): $3,000<\/li>\n<li>College\/University: $4,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The student design challenge seeks ideas on stream and ecosystem restoration, green stormwater infrastructure, water capture and reuse, sediment control, flood mitigation, contemporary urban <span aria-label=\"ahupuaa\">ahupua&#699;a<\/span>, Ala Wai as a destination, education and engagement with community\/youth, local participation and more. <\/p>\n<p>The competition takes place in support of the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alawaichallenge.org\/awwp.html\">Ala Wai Watershed Partnership<\/a>, a multi-sector partnership that coordinates across the public, private, academic, non-governmental, community and philanthropic sectors. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54907\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-ala-wai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-ala-wai.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-ala-wai-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ala Wai Canal in Waik&#299;k&#299; is part of the 19-square-mile Ala Wai watershed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students of all ages are encouraged to submit their ideas to help make the Ala Wai awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,1038,73,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-54869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54869"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84030,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869\/revisions\/84030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}