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Last month we held our fourth annual winter networking event for the Paubox Kahikina Scholarship.
What's happening: For the past four years, we've held a winter networking event for the scholarship at The Pacific Club.
Who showed up: Nine of our 32 scholarship recipients attended, along with 80 other advisors, customers, prospective customers, friends, and even a few prospective scholarship recipients.
Recipients who attended:
- Bryan Pontanilla (Portland State University)
- Dane Keahi (Yale University)
- Dylan Dinio (Northeastern University)
- Joshua Parker (Harvard University)
- Kaimana Kau (Stanford University)
- Kainoa Hottendorf (UC Berkeley)
- Koa Chang (Stanford University)
- Logan Lau (Stanford University)
- Taysia Morioka (University of Michigan)
Companies and organizations who attended:
- Adara
- ALTRES
- And1 Advisors
- Blacksand Capital
- Blue Rock Partners
- Bowers + Kubota
- Damien Memorial School
- Envision Network Solutions
- Finance Factors
- Google
- Hawaii Hui LLC
- Hawaii Kidney Specialists
- Hawaii National Bank
- Hawaii News Now
- Hawaii VA Loans
- HMSA
- Inkinen Executive Search
- K Bay Capital
- Kokua Kalihi Valley
- Makai Ocean Engineering
- Malama Ola Health
- Netflix
- Pacific Invitro Fertilization
- Palolo Elementary School
- Polynesian Voyaging Society
- Purple Maiʻa
- Scholar's App
- Shifted Energy
- Startup Capital Ventures
- The Caregiver Foundation
- The Kālaimoku Group
- The Queen's Health System
- Twitch
- Upena Systems
About the scholarship: The primary objective of the Paubox Kahikina STEM Scholarship is to encourage Native Hawaiians to pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
The scholarship is recurring in nature. In other words, recipients receive $1,000 per year until they graduate.
The bottom line: We know connecting our recipients to our professional network will always be of interest. It's one of the big ideas behind the scholarship. We should therefore endeavor to achieve this.
See also:
- Paubox Kahikina STEM Scholarship – winter networking lunch (2022)
- Paubox awards scholarships to Native Hawaiian college students pursuing STEM majors (KITV Island News)
- Paubox Kahikina Scholarship networking lunch: Topics for improvement
Enjoy the pics!
Koa Chang and Dane Keahi learning more about the importance of SQL from Leroy Kane (Paubox Kahikina STEM Scholarship advisor) in the business world
Connie Lau meeting Joshua Parker for the first time
Dane Keahi and Kaimana Kau meeting Traven Watase (Scholar's App)
For the second year in a row, Bryan Pontanilla flew in from Maui (on his own initiative) to attend the event. An architecture major at Portland State, he wanted to meet someone from Bowers + Kubota. Here he is meeting Charissa Wong, Information Security and Technology Manager for Bowers + Kubota.
Aukina Hunt (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) showing Greg Hoffman (Sr. Enterprise Account Executive, Paubox) and Evan Fitzgerald (VP Finance, Paubox) pics of Molokai
Kainoa Hottendorf (UC Berkeley) connecting with Donavan Kealoha (Startup Capital Ventures)
For the third consecutive year, Siana Austin Hunt (ALTRES) graciously bought lei for our scholarship recipients. She also serves on our Board of Directors.
Now CEO of Damien Memorial School, Arnold Laanui and I did some work together during his time at the FBI.
My devoted wife Lisa and her parents (Roger and Joyce Lerud)
Group pic of our scholarship recipients and my coworkers who helped make the event a success
Scholarship advisor Forest Frizzell (CEO, Shifted Energy) with Nathan Nahina (Purple Maiʻa)
UH Manoa graduate Greg Hoffman doing a demo of Paubox from his iPhone
Dylan Dinio (Northeastern University) networking with scholarship advisors Taylor Ho (Twitch) and Asia Lum (Netflix)
Paubox supporters Charissa Wong (Bowers + Kubota) and Ryan Ozawa (Hawaii Hui LLC)
Taysia Morioka (University of Michigan) and I
The 2023 class of the Paubox Kahikina STEM Scholarship is loaded with achievers. Koa Chang (Stanford University) is one of them.
