A Season of Firsts This October

From hosting our first ever Zero Waste event to welcoming a new STEM-related conference, October has brought a lot of new programs to the Hawaii Convention Center this month. 

We kicked off October with the Pacific Building Trade Expo where the Center collaborated with to organize zero-waste efforts for their event. Zero waste is a philosophy and a design principle that takes a whole system approach to resources and waste. It reduces consumption, minimizes waste, maximizes recycling and composting, and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace. Event efforts included reducing, reusing, sorting and recycling, as well as sending items to H-POWER, the Honolulu Program of Waste Energy Recovery. This event helped divert 1,283 pounds of waste from the landfill.

We also look forward to welcoming the 2019 SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Conference from Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2019,  the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country.

SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science) is an inclusive organization that for more than 46 years has fostered the success of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans – from college students to professionals – in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM. The SACNAS conference will bring over 4,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) college students and professionals to Hawai‘i for the first time in its forty-six year history.  

For more highlights and to find out more about our upcoming events, check out our photos below!

Hawaii Convention Center General Manager Teri Orton was recently featured in Modern Wahine, a TV show hosted by former Miss Universe Brook Lee. In this episode, Teri showed Brook around the facility via our eco-friendly bikes and they even got the chance to shoot some hoops in our basketball courts!
The Pacific Building Trade Expo held in our Kamehameha Exhibit Hall 3. This year, the Center collaborated with the organizers to launch zero-waste efforts during their event. A total of 1,283 pounds of waste were diverted from the landfill.
HCC team members assist and attendee in sorting their trash during the Pacific Building Trade Expo, our first zero-waste event.
We are excited to welcome the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) for their 2019 SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Conference! The SACNAS conference will bring over 4,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) college students and professionals to Hawai‘i for the first time in its forty-six year history.
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