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By: ThinkTech Hawaii
Published on: November 14, 2018
These last few weeks have been extra busy, with our 2018 Leadership and Empowerment workshop and four advocacy trainings for students, teachers, and community members.
We still found time, however, to get out our message of bringing our vision for the future of education to reality!
Joining Business in Hawaii
First up, David joined the Business in Hawaii show hosted by Dailyn Yanagida on ThinkTech Hawaii to share about our first year of work, and how HawaiiKidsCAN ended up leading this work and some of our priorities looking ahead. You can watch the interview below:
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