Mililani Waena Garden

How you effectively communicate your findings, analysis, conclusions and their significance? How you collaborate with others to achieve your actionable solution and preferred future?

• We collaborated with the administration of Mililani Waena by offering our insight on what to plant, where to plant and the schedule for building and planting based on our research done for the project. The administration helped us by expressing their vision for gardens at the school and the budget and time schedule that we could work within.

• To achieve our preferred future, of fully implemented school gardens throughout Mililani, we can share our website to teachers and community members to show them the process and continue to provide guidance to Mililani Waena to ensure that their gardens are a successful project.

 

Determine the most effective communication strategies to engage and educate a diverse audience.

• The first step in initiating a conversation about these issues involved contacting administrators and pitching our Y.E.S. Futures project to them, utilizing the skills from our elevator pitch.

• Teachers must next be approached, after developing an outline for the way in which the garden could be incorporated into the curriculum.

• The one pager that was created will be crucial in communicating our finding, as it can possibly be distributed to parents as well via students.

• The website can be shared with other community partners, schools and teachers to display the process of implementing a garden into a public elementary school

 

Creatively and confidently collaborate with peers and adults to work towards your preferred future.

• We have been in-touch with Mr. Takashima throughout this whole process, as well as Kelly from Aina in Schools

• Mr. Takashima provided us with the logistical details of the project: where to put the gardens, how it would be used, how many gardens to create and the dates and times that would work best for the students and staff.

• Kelly Perry from Aina in Schools helped us by providing us with many resources and pointers on how to build the gardens and implement them in the school.

• Kelly Perry put us in contact with a teacher from Kaui named Tiana who had developed curriculum for her pre-school students to work in their school gardens.

• Once the garden lesson was drafted, it was shared with the Mililani Waena preschool teacher Mrs. Ito for review and suggestions before our planting day.