Mark your calendars for Geography Awareness Week in November and GIS Day on the Wednesday of that week - November 18, 2026! Take time to engage students in this exciting education and career pathway! Get started with some resources at the Learning Endeavors GIS Page. Including past yearsʻ celebrations recorded Hawaiʻi GIS Expert Presentations!! High School teachers, donʻt miss the NEW ESRI GIS 1 Module: https://gismodule-univredlands.hub.arcgis.com/

Learning Endeavors Executive Director, Diana Warren, presented at the Restoring Americaʻs Estuaries Summit in San Francisco, CA in September. She shared the story of the Champions of Coastal Resilience Initiative scaling beyond Hawaiʻi to include other Pacific Island communities: Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Palau. Learn more at the Champions of Coastal Resilience - Wetlands of the Pacific webpage. Diana shares the use of GIS in coastal...

Learning Endeavors high school student interns documented nesting Aeʻo, the endangered native Hawaiian Stilt, in the Piʻikea Ponds in Kīhei. They took pictures as part of a citizen science project, funded in part by the County of Maui and as a part of the Wetland Warriors Initiative.https://www.learningendeavors.org/wetlands As a result of this documentation of nesting endangered birds, Piʻikea Ponds received new attention from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to increase protection and...