Connecting Children to Nature
Hawaiʻi Nature Center
Hawai‘i Nature Center relies on volunteers to support its mission. Opportunities are available for individuals, service groups and businesses, including monthly Makiki Valley Volunteer Workdays. For more information, contact:
For Oʻahu: Operations and Volunteer Program Director Pauline Kawamata (808) 792-2609 or email volunteer@hawaiinaturecenter.org.
For Maui: Maui Program Manager Rachael Taylor at (808-446-4672 or email rachael@hawaiinaturecenter.org.
About the Hawai‘i Nature Center: The mission of the Hawai‘i Nature Center is to foster awareness, appreciation and understanding of Hawaiʻi’s environment and to encourage wise stewardship of the Hawaiian Islands by educating children with an interactive and immersive approach. Established in 1981, HNC has been a leader in environmental education in Hawai‘i for more than thirty-five years. We deliver award-winning programs to more than 10,000 elementary and middle school children from both public and private institutions each year, helping to encourage environmental stewardship through hands-on investigative field study and experiences. Our programs are primarily conducted outdoors in the field, exposing children to a range of ecosystems in watershed, coastal, marsh and forest environments.
Hawaiʻi Nature Center
About the organizer
This noble work stared in a tropical rainforest in 1972 with the Outdoor Circle proposed an education center in O‘ahu’s Makiki Valley. By 1981, the Makiki Environmental Education Center opened and five years later, it grew into an independent 501(c)3 non-profit called the Hawai‘i Nature Center. We offer hands-on, science-based school field trips for elementary students; environmental day camps during school breaks; weekly homeschool programs; weekend family programs and birthday parties for HNC members, and various volunteer service projects.
Connecting Children to Nature
Hawaiʻi Nature Center
Hawai‘i Nature Center relies on volunteers to support its mission. Opportunities are available for individuals, service groups and businesses, including monthly Makiki Valley Volunteer Workdays. For more information, contact:
For Oʻahu: Operations and Volunteer Program Director Pauline Kawamata (808) 792-2609 or email volunteer@hawaiinaturecenter.org.
For Maui: Maui Program Manager Rachael Taylor at (808-446-4672 or email rachael@hawaiinaturecenter.org.
About the Hawai‘i Nature Center: The mission of the Hawai‘i Nature Center is to foster awareness, appreciation and understanding of Hawaiʻi’s environment and to encourage wise stewardship of the Hawaiian Islands by educating children with an interactive and immersive approach. Established in 1981, HNC has been a leader in environmental education in Hawai‘i for more than thirty-five years. We deliver award-winning programs to more than 10,000 elementary and middle school children from both public and private institutions each year, helping to encourage environmental stewardship through hands-on investigative field study and experiences. Our programs are primarily conducted outdoors in the field, exposing children to a range of ecosystems in watershed, coastal, marsh and forest environments.
Hawaiʻi Nature Center
About the organizer
This noble work stared in a tropical rainforest in 1972 with the Outdoor Circle proposed an education center in O‘ahu’s Makiki Valley. By 1981, the Makiki Environmental Education Center opened and five years later, it grew into an independent 501(c)3 non-profit called the Hawai‘i Nature Center. We offer hands-on, science-based school field trips for elementary students; environmental day camps during school breaks; weekly homeschool programs; weekend family programs and birthday parties for HNC members, and various volunteer service projects.