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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Nalukai program director Aaron Schorn and a high school student Sherry Jiang from Kealakehe high school. 

The Nalukai Academy Startup Camp is a ten-day intensive entrepreneurship, technology, and design camp for high school students The camp covers a multitude of different subject areas with real-world applications, such as management, digital storytelling, design thinking, and large-scale digital projects. Campers at Nalukai are driven, clever, and innovative. 

Nalukai focuses: 

• Digital storytelling – branding & marketing, content creation, web design

• Leadership – project management, collaboration, team dynamics

• Entrepreneurship – networking, investor pitches, business plan development

• Design thinking –  prototyping, mind-mapping, iteration

• Technology – coding, web development, digital business tools

Links:

• Nalukai Summer Agenda

• Nalukai

• Nalukai Blog

• Aarons and Trinity Asing Podcast

• Paul Graham Essay 

• Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

• Real World Learning

• Kwaku Aning

• Uncharted Learning - Margarita Geleske

• Notre Dame de Sion Podcast Episode

• The Knowledge Society

• Instagram hinaea.hi