Hawaii Baptist Academy 8th Grade Academic Awards Assembly

aloha I'm george honzaki principal of

hawaii

baptist

academies high school thank you for joining us for our

academic

awards

while we are sad that our families cannot join us in person we are very grateful that our students were able to celebrate their achievements with their classmates, students who are being recognized this year are truly exceptional, they have overcome incredible obstacles, so it is an honor to celebrate these incredible young people. I also want to thank our parents during this pandemic, many of you have had new roles besides being Mom and Dad, you had to be tutors, coaches, mentors and counselors.

Thank you for your partnership and commitment to your children's

academic

studies. We couldn't have done it this year without you. Now let's celebrate this year's award winners. Good morning, students, teachers. and parents welcome to the 2021 school year academic

awards

assembly

, although this has been an unusual year and many annual events have required modifications or cancellation, the school has done everything possible to maintain a healthy school culture, part of this has been maintain high academic standards. Therefore, for students, as we approach the end of this school year, it is appropriate that we recognize and celebrate student achievements together before recognizing our best students.

A word to the students as they applaud their classmates for a job well done. See this as an opportunity and a call to step up and stand up. God has placed a unique and irreplaceable gift in each of you to the vision of working hard and succeeding. Some of you are naturally excellent at a certain subject. Others must. work harder to achieve the same level of success, but everyone is capable of this vision by working hard and being successful as you imagine next year as a freshman in high school, set a goal to be excellent, don't make excuses about why what you can't do it for example some of you may say I'm not good at math or I'm not good at whatever that's an excuse some of you may make an excuse about a certain teacher it's a reason why you can't succeed Don't make excuses, assume your part in your education, it is up to you, don't settle for mediocrity and don't live in fear of failure.

If you can do this, you might be on stage next year. Could you join me in prayer? Please, Father, thank you very much for this opportunity to celebrate all that you have done. we are doing in the life of our school and our students we know that all of our students have worked hard whether on stage or simply in the stands we recognize them all but as a community we celebrate the excellence that is demonstrated in some of these students right now and lord, as I said before, any of us could help us move forward with our best efforts every day, without excuses and whatever you do, whatever you are able to do in us, we just give it back to you. to you as a celebration as a way to honor you, be with us now during this

assembly

.

I pray that as we talk and celebrate together, you are happy with what is happening today in the name of Jesus. Amen, Mrs. Robel, we are happy to announce. that the outstanding students in excellence in the bible 8 are kenshin kassamina and only toy gucci can you clap turn around so they can see you there you go and jess is home congratulations jess jess you look different today our outstanding English student eight our students are jaden okie and keaney shiroma laugh our honor students in algebra one are brady catano and amanda suha so congratulations our honor students in american history are doing gucci and jaden okie there's jess congratulations jess number two maybe say something about online education okay we have three honors students in science eight honors students in earth sciences natasha kubo thank you robert norden and sage shiroma sorry I was wrong, I was too early brendan ahuna sage wait wait ready nahuna at home yes I saw sage standing there, nice looking brendan thank you okay i jumped the gun sage sharoma is our outstanding fine arts student congratulations sage we also have zen wang ogata as our outstanding fine arts student and ali the outstanding high school art artist thank you for your grace outstanding student in high school band brady catano and amanda suha we have more art awards to give to outstanding high school filmmaker kiane shiroma outstanding student in high school drama kaylee labar and another outstanding student in high school drama high school you shang liu outstanding student in physical education and health lydia halcombe and sarah chang let's give everyone a nice round of applause for a great job in academic excellence we will now mention Mrs. kamada the ptf service award honors students who demonstrate service to and through of hba the honored student must also demonstrate citizenship through words and actions and serve as a role model for his or her fellow students, this award determined by his or her

grade

level advisors is open to all students who maintain at least a GPA of 2.0 and receive at least a B in citizenship.

This year's recipients for the 8th

grade

class are Randy Leader and Jaden Okie. So as you know, the school has expected school-wide learning outcomes and say them with me here, the first is humility, come on students, I know some of you know this, the second is curiosity, the third is love and the fourth It's commitment, so at the end of this year we wanted to honor four students who truly embody these particular esslers, starting with humility as a humble young woman who truly shows her love for others and in doing so shows her love for God without ever showing off. and I'm really really trying to spread that kind of awe in admiring God.

We have Lydia Halcomb for the next Essler curiosity. Oh, okay, we'll do it. We will do our photo session in the next test. Her curiosity. This is really about not just knowing. but to wonder and have a true sense of wonder about a variety of parts of god's creation this year's winner for curiosity is robert norden the next essler is love a few years ago the faculty reviewed james and other books of the bible and we I learned the idea that love is expressed through action and this person certainly embodies that in Mia Takahashi. The latest Essler award is for commitment.

That's what we do to keep the other three long-term and we give this award. to brendan ahuna congratulations to brendan he's online let's give a little shout out to the online world thank you okay we're getting closer to the end two more awards this award is called the endurance scholarship this is the first time we're publicly awarding them to the body student and the reason we share this with you is because we want to encourage all of you to hopefully apply for this merit scholarship. Hawaii Baptist Academy is fortunate to have an enduring scholarship established by multiple donors for well-rounded students who excel in academics, the arts, volunteer service, leadership, or extracurricular activities, The Endurance Scholarship is open for applications at October of each year for the 2021-2022 school year, the recipient of the resistance scholarship is one thousand dollars asia de la cruz Asia parents have not yet been informed about the award.

When you take this prize home today, you can tell them the good news. Give him a big hand. Yes that's fine. Finally, the Soaring Eagle Award goes to an eighth grade student who has achieved the highest level of scholarship and embodies. The qualities of a servant leader must be an excellent listener, must have a heart that understands the feelings of others and must have the ability to see the everyday needs around him and act accordingly as a builder of the school community like the El highest honor the middle school bestows on an eighth grade student. The faculty takes this selection very seriously.

In the past we decided not to give this award because we felt there were no worthy candidates this year. However, we are blessed and pleased to announce that there are two. The recipients, both students, have demonstrated exceptional character, high levels of academic achievement, and service to the school. Basically, they are surrounded by great people and friends. Both students will receive an Amazon gift card. Possibly they can choose other things if they want. okay and a commemorative certificate congratulations to kenshin casimina and amanda suha thank you uh we are very proud of you and we are proud of all of you our students who have made this year, although difficult, worth it we want you to know that your teachers are there to support you we are behind you 100 we know that this has been a difficult year on both sides but every day we wake up and we know it is going to be a good day because we have you