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Connecting Students with Career Pathways
2018 Summary
Highlights: - The 7th annual LEI program saw student participation continue to increase; 1,000 high school students from 33 high schools across the state participated. Students attended from high schools across all of the islands: Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Hawai’i...
Maui LEI 2018
Program Fills Students’ Ambition Sails with Wind
The theme of this year’s Lead, Expose and Inspire Program, LEI, April 16-17 on Hawaii Island was the wind of the Hawaiian Islands, and like the makani of the Hawaiian Islands, each person’s wind sets them on a different journey — one that consists of their dreams and...
Program Offers High School Students Peek into Tourism Industry
HONOLULU (KHON2) - There's a great opportunity for high school students who are thinking about pursuing a career in Hawaii's tourism and hospitality industry! They can hear from industry leaders about the benefits of staying home in the islands and following their...
Visitor Industry Looks to Attract High Schoolers
A visitor industry-supported workforce development program kicks off this week to encourage young people to pursue tourism careers, an important recruitment step at a time when the state’s visitor industry is vying to attract candidates amid record unemployment lows....
The Future Workforce of Tourism
Hawaii businesses can expand students’ horizons through the state’s largest workforce development program. For the past seven years, the LEI (Lead, Expose, Inspire) program of ClimbHI has been helping high school students throughout the entire state follow their...
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Sixth LEI Program Opens Doors for Students in Hotel, Tourism Industries
KOLOA — Kylie Butts thought Tuesday’s Leadership, Exploration and Inspiration program was just going to be a field trip she could enjoy instead of being in a classroom. What the Kauai High School senior didn’t expect was to learn so much about the local hotel and...
Checking Out Careers in Hotel Industry
King Kekaulike High sophomores Savanna Valdez and Madison Dutro (first photo) chat with Barbie Dofa, Napili Kai Beach Resort director of human resources Wednesday during a career fair at the Sheraton Maui. The fair was part of the LEI (Leadership, Exploration,...
Proclamation
April has now been declared Leadership, Exploration, and Inspiration Month in the State of Hawaii! Very big mahalo to Hawaii Govenor, David Ige and Lt. Governor, Shan S. Tsutsui for recognizing ClimbHI and its intentions of teaching, guiding, and inspiring the...
LEI 2016 Program on Hawaii News Now
Annual leadership program to help inspire next generation of Hawaii's hospitality industry. HONOLULU - In April of 2016, ClimbHI and the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA) will kick off the 5th annual LEI (Leadership, Exploration, and Inspiration) program. Sponsored by...
Tourism Climbing high
Photo by: Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island Chef Michael Young of the Sheraton Kauai Resort, leads a line of Kauai Community College culinary arts students and other chefs in serving up Niihau Lamb during the ACF Breakfast at the Kauai Community College in this...
Article in The Garden Island (Kauai)
Inspiring the next generation LIHUE — In April, ClimbHI and the Hawaii Tourism Authority will kick off the 5th annual LEI (Leadership, Exploration and Inspiration) program. LEI is the largest workforce development program in Hawaii, and was created to inspire Hawaii’s...
‘Pick me,’ says visitor industry
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM The visitor industry is working hard to find the next generation of local hospitality workers. Kapiolani Community College students Anna Huertas, second from left, and Rita Barrientos talk with Julie Morikawa, right, and...
Workforce program reaches Kauai
by Dennis Fujimoto - The Garden Island POIPU — Waimea High School student Kamryn Kenney was thrilled to be part of the Leadership, Exploration and Inspiration workforce development program Friday at the Sheraton Kauai Resort. “This is a great opportunity for hands-on...
Kezeah Bautista, Included in HTA’s Monthly Update for the Month of April
In honor of Tourism Month, the HTA would like to share an editorial piece by Kezeah Bautista, an 11th grader at Farrington High School, who recently participated in the Leadership, Exploration and Inspiration (LEI) tourism industry career development program held at...
Hundreds of Students Get Inside Look at Visitor Industry
Hundreds of high school and college students got an inside look at Hawaii’s tourism industry Friday. The 4th annual LEI Program features more than 60 businesses, including 21 full-service hotels, that introduce students to various visitor-oriented operations, and even...
LEI TV Spot
We just finished the spot for LEI. Will share with you the air schedule once we have it from Oceanic. Click Here to watch the video on youtube.
HTA E- Bulletin: Leading, Exploring and Inspiring Aloha
By Carlyn Abramo Mililani High School Hospitality extends so much further than an industry....
LEI 2013 Maui Program-April 2013
On April 3, 2013, ClimbHI held its inaugural LEI Maui Program in an effort to reach out to high school students on The Valley Isle. With over 120 students from three high schools in attendance, the program was a great success. The general sentiment was that the...
Congratulations 2012 Hoowehiwehi and Hookipa Award winners
2012 marks the seventh year that the Waikiki Improvement Association honors those in the community whose projects possess the key components of the Revitalization of Waikiki plan which began in 2001. Award recipients were for judged by a committee of professional...
Hawaii Tourism Authority E-bulletin
May is Tourism Month: We all Contribute to Hawai'i's Tourism Economy The following commentary from Mike McCartney, president and CEO, Hawai'i Tourism Authority, ran on Sunday, May 6 in theHonolulu Star-Advertiser Tourism in Hawai'i is more than an industry....
Students get a sneak peak at hospitality industry through lens of development program
LEI program on KHON2 coverage. Opening the doors in the hospitality industry to 300 high school students across Oahu. "Students from across Oahu spent the day in Waikiki learning the ins and outs of the hospitality industry as part of LEI day, or Leadership,...
April 25th 2012 ClimbHI and Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) Inaugural ClimbHI LEI Event
On April 25th 2012 ClimbHI and Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) will launch the inaugural LEI (Lead, Expose, Inspire) exposure event with Hawaii’s local tourist and hospitality industry for workforce development. 300 of Hawaii’s high school students on Oahu from...