PACIFIC AND ASIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL

1601 East–West Road, 4th Floor • Honolulu, Hawai’i 96848–1601

Telephone: (808)944–7780 • Facsimile: (808)944–7785

March 10, 2005 Contact Person: Natasha Chappel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Phone: (work) 944-7759

PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Email: hs@paachawaii.org

MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE & PUNAHOU SCHOOL TO REPRESENT HAWAII IN NATIONAL ACADEMIC WORLDQUEST COMPETITION

After an intense competition, Mid-Pacific Institute and Punahou School tied for first place in the Academic WorldQuest Competition on Saturday, February 26, 2005. Third place was awarded to the Education Laboratory School. Mid-Pacific and Punahou teams, along with their advisors, Mary Sullivan-Tanaka and Terrina Wong, respectively, will travel to Washington D.C. to compete in the National Academic WorldQuest competition on April 1-3, 2005, thanks to the generous sponsorship of PAAC Board Members. Members of Mid-Pacific’s team include: Gan Uyeda, Carolyn Pearce, Kyla Graham, and Kyle Tani. The Punahou team includes: George Bogden, Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, Paige Heckathorn, and Zoe Morrison.

Academic WorldQuest is an exciting team quiz game designed to enhance international education. Teams compete in six rounds, testing their knowledge of current events, geography, world history, flags, places around the world, and people in the news. Each team works together to try to come up with the correct answers. This year a total of 108 students from Oahu, Maui, and Kauai participated in the competition. Competing teams from Oahu, Maui, and Kauai represented the following schools:

Assets School

Education Laboratory School

Kaiser High School

Sacred Hearts Academy

Kailua High School

Lahainaluna High School

Maui High School

Mid-Pacific Institute

Kalani High School

Roosevelt High School

Punahou School

Radford High School

International Hospitality Center

Kahuku High School

Waimea High School

PAAC is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the World Affairs Council for the State of Hawai'i. PAAC promotes increased understanding of world affairs, particularly Asia-Pacific issues by sponsoring speaker forums and conferences, facilitating cross-cultural exchange of international visitors, and conducting global education outreach programs at Hawai’i high schools and community colleges statewide. Visit PAAC on the web at www.paachawaii.org.

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