#Maui High School

The 15th annual Maui High School Foundation Hall of Honor Awards Banquet will take place at the Izumi “Shine” Matsui Athletic Center on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Kalama Intermediate School has been selected as the first middle school campus in Hawaiʻi to join the statewide “Drive With Aloha” campaign initiative.

A construction project on the Maui High School campus was significantly vandalized, causing major damage to what will become a new restroom. Concrete walls, columns, pallets of concrete blocks and other areas inside the site were demolished. State officials described the extent as criminal property damage and say the incident occurred Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

Ten Hawaiʻi students have received the 2026 Bayer Hawaiʻi Life Sciences Scholarship including Sloane Jucker, Kody Manegdeg, and Jasmyn Yun of Maui.

Hawai‘i State Federal Credit Union has awarded $22,000 in grants to 44 Hawaiʻi public school teachers through its 2026 Investing in Education grant program, with five Maui schools among the recipients.

The Construction Industry of Maui awarded three Maui County high school graduates each a $20,000 scholarship to encourage education toward a construction industry career.

Three students with roots on Maui—a Maui High graduate researching plant-based fire suppressants, a Seabury Hall senior focused on native plant restoration and a college student who found her calling working with the Maui Invasive Species Committee—have been selected as the 2026–2027 recipients of the Friends of Haleakalā National Park’s annual memorial scholarship.

Seven Rotary Clubs on Maui presented a $5,000 Hawaiʻi Rotary Youth Foundation scholarship to outstanding graduating seniors. Each club conducted interviews with multiple candidates and chose one recipient for the award.

The Ian Walsh Menehune Mayhem Foundation (IWMMF) announced its 2026 scholarship recipients. Eight outstanding student athletes have received $3,750 scholarships for their College or University expenses.

The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, Inc. has named 10 high school seniors from Maui County as scholarship recipients in its annual Legacy Scholarship Program, winning $37,000 in scholarships.   

Two Hawaiʻi educators — including Maui High School teacher Janyce Omura — are among 78 nominees nationwide for the 2026 National History Day Teacher of the Year Award.

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation congratulates the 2026 Hawai‘i Bridge Builder Competition champions, Ian Payba and Jeter Hondo of Maui High School.

Forty-three of the state’s top public school seniors, including two top honorees from Maui were honored April 22 at the Citizen-Scholar Awards luncheon held at the Prince Waikīkī.

boy’s crown at the second Maui Interscholastic League surf contest of the season at Hoʻokipa Beach Park, Saturday.

As part of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education’s continued commitment to farm-to-school initiatives and student wellness, the mandarins have been available to school distributors since January, following Mahi Pono’s first commercial harvest of the Hawaiʻi-grown crop. Mahi Pono’s mandarins will be available to schools statewide throughout the spring harvest season.

Maui Ocean Center will present the 15th annual Maui 5K from 7 to 9 a.m. Sunday, March 1. Online registration, including new youth rates for ages 5 to 17, ends Feb. 26.

Storer earned Kamehameha Maui its first title in swimming. Sacha Salem of Maui Prep was the only other MIL swimmer to win a state title in the championship finals.

The AI explosion has changed nearly everything in education, revolutionizing the way things now are taught, the way students can augment and speed up their learning process, and even how teachers operate, said Keith Imada, who teaches STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at Maui High.

Both the Sabers in Division I and the Pine Lasses in Division II will bring back nearly the same squads that have led them to consecutive Maui Interscholastic League titles in recent years.

Both the Maui Prep boys and girls team won their 4×100-yard freestyle relays to come from one point behind to capture their respective Maui Interscholastic League swimming championship.