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David Sing, Director (dsing@hawaii.edu)
Nā Pua Noʻeau Building 381A
Manono Street Campus
(808) 974-7678
Nā Pua Noʻeau (NPN) is a Hawaiian culture-based education resource center within the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) that provides educational enrichment program activities to over 2000 Hawaiian children and their families annually in grades K through 12 throughout the State of Hawaiʻi. The Center provides a wide range of program activities from a one-day Super Enrichment Saturday to three years of intensive study in land and natural resource studies and Hawaiian leadership (ʻAha ʻŌpio Alakaʻi Program). Nā Pua Noʻeau uses a program model that is designed to make learning meaningful and applicable within a Hawaiian context. Students specialize in content areas such as biology, geology, astronomy, marine science, environmental science, volcanology, voyaging, and leadership.
The Program has centers and staffing on all of the islands. All sites are at a University of Hawaiʻi campus with the exception of Lanai. Sites include University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kauaʻi Community College, Maui Community College, Lānaʻi High and Elementary School, Molokaʻi Education Center, and University of Hawaiʻi Center at West Hawaiʻi.
The Center has been in operation since 1989.
- Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV)
- College of Continuing Education and Community Service (CCECS)
- The Conference Center
- Hale Kuamoʻo (Hawaiian Language Center)
- Hawaiʻi Small Business Development Center Network
- ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi
- Nā Pua Noʻeau
- North Hawaiʻi Education and Research Center (NHERC)
- The Office of Mauna Kea Management
- Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center
- UH Hilo Performing Arts Center