Awards

Previous Recipients

Shelley Ota, an HBEA Member for over 15 years was the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award for her commitment to business education through her activities as the Leeward Community College’s Business Technology Division chairperson. She is a zealous advocate for career and technical education classes and programs, and has fought many battles for the Business Technology Division. She is a strong and effective leader and has provided guidance to the division, especially in the current areas of program and course review.

The HBEA Outstanding Business Educator is described as “one in a million” and attended every HBEA State conference for the past 12 years. Kathy Hill is known for her interactive teaching style and clear presentations. Her dedication to business students is unsurpassed as she puts in countless hours in preparing and delivering clear and organized lectures, and doing everything she can to assure that students learn. She was a pioneer in Distance Education enabling students to take accounting courses via cable TV since 2001.

Awards

Again this year HBEA members have the opportunity to recognize an outstanding teacher and student, in the business education arena. Please take a few minutes to review the criteria and help recognize service and excellence by nominating someone for these awards; deadline for nominations is December 1, 2008. The 2008-2009 awards program consists of the following awards:

Educator of the Year Award
(all levels elementary to post secondary).
The nominee must be primarily engaged in teaching or overseeing the teaching of business at the secondary or post secondary level. If the nominee has dual responsibilities, at least 50 percent of those responsibilities at the major employing institution must be related to business education. The nominee’s contributions may have been made over an extended period of time, but the major impact must have occurred within two years prior to the nomination. The nominee must be a current member of HBEA.

To nominate someone for the educator of the year award, click the link below

To nominate an outstanding educator, click on the link below

HBEA Outstanding Educator.pdf

Student of the Year Award
(secondary to post secondary)

The nominee must be actively participating in business education classes at a high school or college in Hawai‘i.

To nominate a secondary or post secondary student for the student of the year award, click the link below

HBEA Outstanding Student.pdf

For more information on HBEA awards, please contact one of the HBEA Awards Co-Chairs: Beth Sanders, sanders@hawaii.edu or Joni Onishi, jonishi@hawaii.edu