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HCC's program By Paul Luuwai, Hawaiian Canoe Club Program Director Many of our young paddlers are participating with their respected High Schools. I coach at Seabury, a small private school on the slopes of Haleakala. We start our winter season February 1st and plan to take our kids to the Hei Hei Wa'a race on Oahu, February 27 and 28th. Our next event is the Maui Invitational all-keiki regatta on March 6th. We monitor our kids grades and keep track of them throughout the school year. We also have club laulima day (many hands) every other month to help upkeep and maintain our facility. The past three months, we have focused on building a traditional Hawaiian Hale, the biggest to be built in all of Hawaii. We plan to use our hale to teach Hawaiiana, hula, hold community meetings and store our canoes. Our club is also starting to organize our 50th anniversary luau. We are the oldest canoe club on Maui and want to honor our past while planning for the club's future. I'm in the process of putting together our culture program that we have run the past 13 summers. We teach a variety of Hawaiian concepts, values, fitness, healthy living, migration, navigation, religion, arts and crafts, fishing, hunting, hiking, kalo patch work — you get the idea. Each summer we have a different curriculum. Our culminating event is the week before the State Champs. Our kids program produce entertainment for our annual luau with hula, oli and chants. Every year we take our students to Kaho'olawe, Lana'i and Moloka'i. We paddle from Maui with as many as 150 people, most are kids of course. Our goals are to teach Hawaiian culture, provide a safe and drug-free environment, work on self-esteem, fitness and being a 'pono' with oneself while having fun, learning about our ancestors and individual ohana. We plan to win the keiki division at the States again. We won the past six years in a row and 14 times in the past 22 years. This fall our club has started an OC-2 program, mainly trying to expose our kids to safety and maintenance of the OC-1's and OC-2's, and to get them to the open ocean and down-hill runs.	Hawaiian Canoe Club (HCC) was founded in 1960 with a commitment to provide a variety of cultural opportunities through paddling to adults and the youth of Maui. The commitment to the keiki was formalized in April 1992 with the creation of an autonomous 501(c)(3) organization, Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc., that provides educational and cultural activities in an ocean-oriented program for youth. The mission statement of Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc. recognized the continuing commitment “to perpetuate and preserve the art of Hawaiian canoe paddling through personal growth and character development rooted in traditional Hawaiian cultural values.” Over the past eighteen years, 2,200 keiki have participated in Hawaiian Kamali‘i. Each summer 150 keiki ages 9-18 participate in the Leadership Training Program (LTP) and Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). The LTP teaches high school students about positive role modeling, time management, goal setting, Hawaiian history, language, culture, and ocean safety. Keiki ages 9-13 who enroll in the SEP learn a wide range of subjects through classroom instruction, hands on activities, and excursions around Maui, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, and Kaho‘olawe. Excursions allow keiki to explore Maui Nui as a ‘living classroom’ in a cultural context. The keiki travel to places throughout Maui Nui accompanied by parents and kupuna members of HCC. This fosters an inter-generational exchange of positive values and builds a sense of ‘ohana within our organization. Hawaiian Kamali‘i also offers year-round learning and paddling programs. Our keiki participate in spring paddling regattas on Maui and O‘ahu. We host two high schools, Seabury Hall and St. Anthony, for the Maui Interscholastic League season. This past fall we started an OC-1/OC-2 program for middle and high school kids. Our goal is to expose kids to OC-1/OC-2 while teaching them safety and maintenance. By the end of the program, the kids were completing the 9-mile ‘Maliko Run’ from Maliko Gulch to Kahului Harbor. In October 2009, we started a Furlough Friday program for grades 3-8. The morning includes instruction in math, reading, and science while the afternoon includes canoe paddling, hale building, swimming and Hawaiian culture. In June, HCC began construction on a 50’ x 30’ Traditional Hawaiian hale. The hale will be the piko, or center, of an inter-generational gathering place to perpetuate, preserve, and celebrate traditional Hawaiian knowledge and practices. It will meet our needs of providing a quality program for our keiki, but also, the opportunity to expand and improve programs that benefit the entire community. From daily hula practices to elaborate Hawaiian ceremonies and festivals, the hale will be a place for Hawaiians, non-Hawaiians, keiki, makua and kupuna to gather, share, and enjoy Hawaiian culture. The hale is being built by master hale builder Francis Palani Sinenci of Hana, Maui with help from the HCC ‘ohana. Many Maui businesses and professionals have donated time and materials to build the hale which is the largest in the state of Hawai‘i. We expect the hale to be completed by mid-February. By Kaimana Lee	New Challenge in Seattle California Big Island of Hawaii Tui Tonga Festival Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc. Braddah Mel's Canoe Surfing Stan Dickson on the future Vaka Eiva

HCC's program

By Paul Luuwai, Hawaiian Canoe Club Program Director

Many of our young paddlers are participating with their respected High Schools. I coach at Seabury, a small private school on the slopes of Haleakala.
We start our winter season February 1st and plan to take our kids to the Hei Hei Wa'a race on Oahu, February 27 and 28th. Our next event is the Maui Invitational all-keiki regatta on March 6th.
We monitor our kids grades and keep track of them throughout the school year. We also have club laulima day (many hands) every other month to help upkeep and maintain our facility. The past three months, we have focused on building a traditional Hawaiian Hale, the biggest to be built in all of Hawaii. We plan to use our hale to teach Hawaiiana, hula, hold community meetings and store our canoes.
Our club is also starting to organize our 50th anniversary luau. We are the oldest canoe club on Maui and want to honor our past while planning for the club's future.
I'm in the process of putting together our culture program that we have run the past 13 summers. We teach a variety of Hawaiian concepts, values, fitness, healthy living, migration, navigation, religion, arts and crafts, fishing, hunting, hiking, kalo patch work — you get the idea. Each summer we have a different curriculum. Our culminating event is the week before the State Champs. Our kids program produce entertainment for our annual luau with hula, oli and chants.
Every year we take our students to Kaho'olawe, Lana'i and Moloka'i. We paddle from Maui with as many as 150 people, most are kids of course.
Our goals are to teach Hawaiian culture, provide a safe and drug-free environment, work on self-esteem, fitness and being a 'pono' with oneself while having fun, learning about our ancestors and individual ohana.
We plan to win the keiki division at the States again. We won the past six years in a row and 14 times in the past 22 years.
This fall our club has started an OC-2 program, mainly trying to expose our kids to safety and maintenance of the OC-1's and OC-2's, and to get them to the open ocean and down-hill runs.

Hawaiian Canoe Club (HCC) was founded in 1960 with a commitment to provide a variety of cultural opportunities through paddling to adults and the youth of Maui. The commitment to the keiki was formalized in April 1992 with the creation of an autonomous 501(c)(3) organization, Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc., that provides educational and cultural activities in an ocean-oriented program for youth. The mission statement of Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc. recognized the continuing commitment “to perpetuate and preserve the art of Hawaiian canoe paddling through personal growth and character development rooted in traditional Hawaiian cultural values.”
Over the past eighteen years, 2,200 keiki have participated in Hawaiian Kamali‘i. Each summer 150 keiki ages 9-18 participate in the Leadership Training Program (LTP) and Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). The LTP teaches high school students about positive role modeling, time management, goal setting, Hawaiian history, language, culture, and ocean safety. Keiki ages 9-13 who enroll in the SEP learn a wide range of subjects through classroom instruction, hands on activities, and excursions around Maui, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, and Kaho‘olawe. Excursions allow keiki to explore Maui Nui as a ‘living classroom’ in a cultural context. The keiki travel to places throughout Maui Nui accompanied by parents and kupuna members of HCC. This fosters an inter-generational exchange of positive values and builds a sense of ‘ohana within our organization.
Hawaiian Kamali‘i also offers year-round learning and paddling programs. Our keiki participate in spring paddling regattas on Maui and O‘ahu. We host two high schools, Seabury Hall and St. Anthony, for the Maui Interscholastic League season. This past fall we started an OC-1/OC-2 program for middle and high school kids. Our goal is to expose kids to OC-1/OC-2 while teaching them safety and maintenance. By the end of the program, the kids were completing the 9-mile ‘Maliko Run’ from Maliko Gulch to Kahului Harbor. In October 2009, we started a Furlough Friday program for grades 3-8. The morning includes instruction in math, reading, and science while the afternoon includes canoe paddling, hale building, swimming and Hawaiian culture.
In June, HCC began construction on a 50’ x 30’ Traditional Hawaiian hale. The hale will be the piko, or center, of an inter-generational gathering place to perpetuate, preserve, and celebrate traditional Hawaiian knowledge and practices. It will meet our needs of providing a quality program for our keiki, but also, the opportunity to expand and improve programs that benefit the entire community. From daily hula practices to elaborate Hawaiian ceremonies and festivals, the hale will be a place for Hawaiians, non-Hawaiians, keiki, makua and kupuna to gather, share, and enjoy Hawaiian culture. The hale is being built by master hale builder Francis Palani Sinenci of Hana, Maui with help from the HCC ‘ohana. Many Maui businesses and professionals have donated time and materials to build the hale which is the largest in the state of Hawai‘i. We expect the hale to be completed by mid-February.
By Kaimana Lee

New Challenge in Seattle
California
Big Island of Hawaii
Tui Tonga Festival
Hawaiian Kamali‘i, Inc.
Braddah Mel's Canoe Surfing
Stan Dickson on the future
Vaka Eiva