ADVISORY/Prudential Financial Honors Spirit of Community Student Volunteers in Hawaii.News Editors/City Desks/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 1) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT:
"Spirit of Community" award presentation for Hawaii student
volunteers. Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program
honors outstanding student volunteer efforts in partnership
with the National Association of Secondary School Principals
(NASSP).
VISUAL OPPORTUNITIES:
Approximately 25 Honorees will be accompanied by their
parents, teachers and school board representatives, as they
are honored for their volunteer efforts in the community and
presented with a certificate of recognition. National award
recognition presented to:
State Honoree State Honoree
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Tiffany Chou of Pukalani, Hawaii, Theodore Dodson of Wailuku, Hawaii,
a senior at Seabury Hall School an eighth-grader at Saint Anthony
in Makawao, Hawaii, was inspired Junior/Senior High School, spent
by her special-needs brother to the past three summers
create "The Dancing Palette volunteering as a senior patrol
Project," a weekend social leader for elementary school
program offering art, drama and children at a Cub Scout summer
dance activities for special- camp.
needs students and their teenage
mentors.
Distinguished Finalist Distinguished Finalist
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Mika'ele Pavao of Hana, Hawaii, a Kelsey Yamasaki of Honolulu, a
senior at Hana High and senior at President Theodore
Elementary School, directed a Roosevelt High School, organized
project to build an outdoor an on-line voting ballot to get
pavilion at his school so that young Hawaiians involved in the
young students who attended democratic process and to gauge
cultural classes outdoors would attitudes on prominent youth
not get wet in the rain. issues.
Honored Guest Speaker
Governor Linda Lingle will speak on the importance of
volunteerism as she addresses honorees and guests during
the reception.
WHEN:
Thursday, April 1, 2004 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Washington Place - 320 South Beretania Street, Honolulu
About The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Program The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards is a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program, now in its ninth year, is conducted by Prudential Financial, Inc. in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is a United States educational advocacy organization consisting of secondary school principals. To promote excellence among middle school and high school students, NASSP founded and still sponsors the National Honor (NASSP NASSP National Association of Secondary School Principals NASSP North American Society of Social Philosophy ). More than 20,000 high school and middle level students nationwide submitted applications for this year's program. All public and private middle level and high schools in the country were eligible to nominate nom·i·nate tr.v. nom·i·nat·ed, nom·i·nat·ing, nom·i·nates 1. To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election. 2. To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor. a student for a local Prudential Spirit of Community Award this past November. Girl Scout councils, county 4-H organizations, American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. chapters, YMCAs, Camp Fire USA
Camp Fire USA is a nationwide youth organization that began on March 17, 1910 as Camp Fire Girls. The organization has been co-ed since 1975 and has youth from pre-kindergarten through age 21. councils and Volunteer Centers were also eligible to nominate student volunteers for the awards program. All local honorees were reviewed by state-level judges, who selected state honorees and distinguished finalists based on criteria such as personal initiative, creativity, effort, impact and personal growth. State honorees, each will receive $1,000, an engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. silver medallion and an all-expense-paid trip in May to Washington, D.C., where they will join the top two honorees - one middle level and one high school youth - from each of the other states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. for several days of national recognition events. Ten of them will be named America's top youth volunteers for 2004 on May 3, 2004. The awards are part of a broad initiative created by Prudential to encourage young people to become involved in community service. Other elements of the initiative include The Prudential Youth Leadership Institute, a community leadership training program for high school students and a variety of educational materials for young people and teachers relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc youth volunteerism. Prudential Financial companies, with approximately $421 billion in total assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. as of September 30, 2003, serve individual and institutional customers worldwide and include The Prudential Insurance Company of America, one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S. These companies offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, property and casualty insurance, mutual funds, annuities, pension and retirement related services and administration, asset management, banking and trust services, real estate brokerage franchises and relocation services Relocation services or "employee relocation" includes a range of internal business processes that are engaged to transfer employees (and often their families) or entire departments of a business to a new work location. . For more information, visit http://www.prudential.com. Editor's Notes Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Dayna Culbertson is the onsite event coordinator for Prudential Financial and may be reached the day of the reception via cell phone at 808-389-7522. Prudential Financial executives are available for interview to discuss Spirit of Community and additional community outreach efforts. Logos are immediately available upon request. A post-event news release with photography and profiles of each of the student volunteers will be available after the honoree hon·or·ee n. The recipient of an honor. Noun 1. honoree - a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments recipient, receiver - a person who receives something reception. Media who wish to attend the Prudential Spirit of Community honoree reception at Washington Place Washington Place is a Greek Revival home in the Capital District in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and was formerly the official residence of the Governor of Hawaiʻi. must contact Glenn Shigeta at 808-586-0005 or Briana Solidum at 808-586-0240 prior to arrival. |
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