{"id":74372,"date":"2018-02-05T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74372"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:46:47","slug":"ken-kang-milken-educator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/ken-kang-milken-educator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa grad wins $25,000 Milken Educator Award"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvW6EsYJX9Y?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74375\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/manoa-miliken-kang-k.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Kang\" width=\"249\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/manoa-miliken-kang-k.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/manoa-miliken-kang-k-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by the Milken Family Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> graduate <strong>Ken Kang<\/strong>, who helped develop the <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> program at <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">&#699;Aiea<\/span> High School, was presented with a Milken Educator Award on February 5.<\/p>\n<p>Kang earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in 1997 and a post-baccalaureate degree in secondary education and educational technology in 2005. He is the technology coordinator at <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">&#699;Aiea<\/span> High, his alma mater, and started the school\u2019s first <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> class in 2015. <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> stands for science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto and Milken Educator Awards Senior Vice President Jane Foley presented the $25,000 award to Kang during an assembly at <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">&#699;Aiea<\/span> High School. Kang is the only Milken recipient from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> this year and is one of 44 nationwide in the 2017&#8211;2018 school year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ken Kang was a working engineer before returning to his old school and turning his mind\u2019s eye to educational technology solutions,&rdquo; said Foley.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ken\u2019s diligent work in improving technology resources and training his fellow teachers has advanced &#699;Aiea High and all the schools in the <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">&#699;Aiea<\/span> complex and shaped students\u2019 passion for <abbr>STEM<\/abbr> learning,&rdquo; said Kishimoto. &ldquo;His devotion to his alma mater is tremendous, and we congratulate and thank him for being such an inspiration for our students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkeneducatorawards.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/view\/hawaii-teacher-receives-milken-educator-award-25000\">Read more about Kang at the Milken website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kang is the technology coordinator at &#699;Aiea High, his alma mater, and started the school\u2019s first <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> class in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":74375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,95,179,313,9,56],"class_list":["post-74372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-college-of-education","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/manoa-miliken-kang-k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372","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=74372"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92981,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions\/92981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}