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Bridge to the Future - Actus Lend Lease & Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu Partnership

A partnership with Actus Lend Lease and the Construction Academy at Waipahu High School resulted in a specially designed program appropriately named Construction Internship: Bridge to the Future. This unique collaboration allows high school students an opportunity to not only be personally mentored by a Actus employee in the field of construction, but also rewards student participants with summer internships at Actus Lend Lease.

This past school year the Actus Bigs met their student proté§©s at Waipahu High School where together they worked on various projects and activities. One of the challenges presented to the matches was to design a product that would prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a two-story structure. As you can imagine, there were some very noteworthy ideas that worked and a few that despite gallant efforts, resulted in a messy reenactment of Humpty Dumpty's unfortunate end. 

 

Take a look at the gripping egg drop contest:

Egg Drop 

Rotarians Partner To Create The First Site-based Plus Program 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset, combined to create a pilot program called Site-based Plus. This program uses mentors from Rotary and University of Hawaii Rotaract Clubs and serve the children of Palolo Elementary.  The Rotarian Bigs and Palolo Littles meet once a month for a group activity during the school year. Click here to read a Honolulu Star Bulletin article about site-based plus.

 

 

 




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