{"id":70890,"date":"2017-11-15T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=70890"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:54:09","slug":"hilo-and-hawaii-students-win-hiplan-tuition-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/15\/hilo-and-hawaii-students-win-hiplan-tuition-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo and Hawai\u02bbi CC<\/abbr> students win HIplan tuition scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Top photo: 糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor Marcia Sakai presents the HIplan Tuition Scholarship to Juvette Kahawaiʻi<\/span>.
Bottom photo: Hawaiʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr> Chancellor Rachel Solemsaas presents the HIplan Tuition Scholarship to Kainen Bohol.
Photos by Everette Ganir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students from the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> and Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community College<\/a> won a year’s free tuition for the business plans they submitted to the 2017 HIPlan<\/abbr> Competition<\/a>. Semifinalists in a competition between Hawaiʻi<\/span> Island entrepreneurs pitched their business plans to judges on October 21. The 15 semifinalists competed for a $25,000 prize to use as seed money toward their vision.<\/p>\n

A special category was added to this year’s competition for the best business plan cultivated by students at 糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo and Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n

Juvette Kahawaiʻi<\/span><\/strong>, a business administration major at 糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo, submitted a plan to launch Kupaʻa<\/span> Tax and Accounting Corporation, a family business that will provide not only tax preparation but bookkeeping and payroll administration for small businesses. Kahawaiʻi<\/span> plans to be the accountant, her father the head tax preparer, her mother the office manager and brother-in-law the IT<\/abbr> specialist.<\/p>\n

Hawaiʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr> winner Kainen Kahiwahiwa Bohol<\/strong> submitted a plan to use scrap materials from the campus’ welding shop to make Lava Forge Metalcraft. It would make salable and exportable furniture, tools and decorative items from the scrap materials that are typically discarded by Hawaiʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr>’s welding and machining program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, go to 糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—From 糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/p>\n

—By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juvette Kahawaiʻi<\/span> and Kainen Kahiwahiwa Bohol won a year’s worth of tuition by submitting business ideas to the HIPlan<\/abbr> Business Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[498,61,660,71,14],"class_list":["post-70890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-business","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t