Grantee Profile

Kama’aha Education Initiative

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1 Grant
$90,000 Total Awarded
2018 Year

Awarded Grants

2018

Kūkeao Hawaiian Language Scientific Vocabulary Program

2018 Kūkeao Hawaiian Language Scientific Vocabulary Program

$90,000
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Community Partners

Other

Funding Area

Program Native Arts, Language, and Knowledge
Focus Area Language
Project Native Language Immersion Initiative

Description

Kūkeao Native Hawaiian Science Language Resource is a Kama'aha Education Initiative (KEI). The project goal to rediscover Hawaiian scientific terminology and concepts found in ancestral texts for use by teachers in PreK-12 Hawaiian language immersion classroom. Achieving the project goal will increase the capacity of Ka ʻUmeke Kāeo Immersion School.