Through the lens of the popular media forms of manga (comics) and anime (animated film), grades 7 – 8 students were introduced to Japanese culture and language in the summer school class Anime Manga and Japanese Popular Culture created and taught by Junko Ady, Punahou Academy language faculty member.

Take a look around and you’ll discover a treasure trove of art in every building on campus. From paintings to ceramics, from student work to the masters, from contemporary to historic, there’s a wide breadth of work from Hawai‘i and the world.

The year-long celebration of President Jim Scott’s ’70 last year at Punahou kicked off with a dinner party at the London home of Dana Haimoff ’87 and husband Nathan Cockrell in late June.

Through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), Punahou Academy students designed and built an experiment to be tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by astronauts and returned for analysis.

“You had a lot of failure today,” said Design Thinking, Technology and Fabrication faculty member Taryn Loveman with a smile to the students of the Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication summer school class, which took place in the newly opened D. Kenneth Richardson ’48 Learning Lab in Mamiya Science Center.

Watch the sun rise and set on the Sidney and Minnie Kosasa Community as work continues during the summer. The shapes of the new buildings have become clearer in recent months and it is getting easier to imagine what the area will look like when it opens for the 2019 – 2020 school year.

Since the opening of the first half of Sidney and Minnie Kosasa Community for Grades 2 – 5, the young plants surrounding the buildings have flourished. The ground cover, shrubs and trees provide children with a native plant forest to explore and play in.

Every month, the Honolulu City Council honors individuals and groups throughout O‘ahu who have demonstrated leadership, community service, and goodwill in the community.

A sea of student servers in yellow shirts lined the path from Castle Hall lawn to the main tent as the Oahu College Band played fight songs.

Student server volunteers play an important role at the Alumni Lū‘au. They form a “gauntlet” of cheering faces to usher in the 50th Reunion Class into the large alumni lū‘au tent.