No matter where you look, COVID-19 related stories dominate the headlines. The pandemic has taken over media stations, grocery stores, homes, schools, and everyday life. The number of cases and deaths continue to increase and the hardest part for many people is not knowing when this will all come to an end. However, instead of …
Every year the high School Environmental Club celebrates Earth Week with fun events on campus. Since an in-person celebration isn't possible this year, the club officers wanted to celebrate virtually instead. In partnership with the Eagle Eye, the club is sharing daily Earth Day Moment videos each day this week as a way to reconnect …
The 2020-2021 High School Student Council was elected this week. President: Tiffany Hamada ('21)Vice President: Amber Loo ('21)Recording Secretary: Jeremy Oyer ('21)Corresponding Secretary: Lizzie Dennis ('21)Treasurer: Aaron Omon ('22)
Here are the candidates running for next year's high school student council. Below are the statements shared by the candidates summarizing their leadership experience and their election speeches. Voting will take place on Friday, April, 17 from 7:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Election forms will be emailed to students in grades 8 through 11. April …
You won’t find “Perfectionist Club” in HBA’s yearbook, but that’s only because it isn’t an official club. Every week, like any other regular club meeting, perfectionists gather in a classroom during lunch to talk about their Type-A struggles. Hawaii Baptist Academy history teacher Lynne Nakano, a self-described perfectionist, began this unofficial club to provide a …
“Ride your board to school, ride your board to the store, ride your board to your car, ride your board in your house, just ride it everywhere...Just have your skateboard on you all the time. Go take it to school and carry it through school—I don’t care. You’re just there with it constantly. And you’re …
We all know that mothers and daughters have a special relationship, but what happens when they fight? High school college counselor Tara Gruspe has a college age daughter, Kainani, who graduated from HBA. Gruspe says that their relationship has improved since Kainani left for college. When Kainani was still a high schooler, Gruspe said they …
There are now two cases of coronavirus in Hawaii, and while state authorities maintain that there is no known community spread of the virus, schools across the islands are still experiencing the indirect effects of this growing pandemic. Like many of them, in addition to instituting new health and safety policies concerning Covid-19, HBA has …
When I tell people that I only spend half the year with my father, they mostly come up with just these three conclusions: One: He is in the U.S. Military;Two: My parents are divorced; orThree: He is an absentee parent. Well, he is none of these things. My father is a ship captain for Matson, …
