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By Joan Campbell, Office of Advancement
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| Photo: Students in the Kahilu Theatre’s
Summer Arts & Science Program make liquid nitrogen ice
cream with Keck electronics engineer Tom Nordin. |
Over half of Keck employees report that they participate in
civic service as volunteers, mentors, group members, and advocates
with missions to improve science and math education, environmental
restoration, youth development, arts and culture, health and
wellness, and world peace.
Keck employees, as volunteers, mentors, members, and advocates,
support the following components of community: Boy/Girl Scouts,
Earl’s Garage, Tutu’s House, Ironman Triathlon, American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life, American Business Woman’s Association,
West Hawai‘i Astronomy Club, Adopt a Highway, trail clean-ups,
playground maintenance, astronomy outreach in both East and
West Hawai‘i schools, Parent Teacher Associations and School-Based
Management Committee (SCBM), local school science fairs (judges),
school fundraising events, school classroom volunteers, robotics
groups, electric car groups, Waimea Healthy Keiki Fest, Lavaman
Keiki Duathlon, community fairs (East and West Hawai‘i), Kahilu
Summer Arts Program, GEMS, community dance concerts, youth
sports/athletics (coaches), walking groups, free star gazing
events, Frisbee promoters, DLNR, Aloha Theatre, Sierra Club,
church groups, Rotary Club, Athletic Clubs, Blood Bank, North
Hawai‘i Hospice, American Red Cross, Waimea Community Theatre,
Aloha United Way, North Hawai‘i Outcomes Project, Big Island
Dance Council, Hawai‘i County Local Emergency Planning Committee,
local newspapers (write articles), County of Hawai‘i Parks
and Recreation, Waimea Youth Center project, Ulumau Hawai‘i
Leadership Series, Hamakua Music Festival, Waipi‘o Circle,
Amateur Radio Emergency Service, North Hawai‘i Community Hospital,
Waimea Arts Council, Hamakua Times, trails advocacy groups,
Mauna Kea Visitor Center, YMCA, youth group leaders, Friends
of Honoka‘a Pool, Salvation Army, and community associations.
Keck employees are board members and/or former board members
at Worldlink Foundation, Waimea Country School, HPA Ohana Association,
Waimea Community Theatre and Chorus, Big Island Dance Council,
E Mau Na Ala Hele, American Business Women’s Association, Waimea
Arts Council, and YMCA.
Keck employees often give tours of Keck facilities and share
astronomy with visitors, as well as with parents and students
of local schools. Keck employees are very enthusiastic about
what they do and they like to share that enthusiasm with all
aspects of the community.
Keck Observatory’s Human Resources and Administration Manager,
Naomi Ahuna, provides the following background on the Observatory’s
commitment to the Hawai‘i Island community:
“The Observatory participated in
a two-day Strategic Planning Workshop in December 2002. This
workshop involved more than 40 Keck Observatory staff and representatives
from the University of California and the California Institute
of Technology, our parent institutions. From this workshop
we derived our core and cultural values, mission and vision
statements, and an outline of a Strategic Plan which has been
further developed into our organization’s roadmap and corporate
culture. One of the programs that came out of the 2002 planning
workshop was to encourage our staff to devote two percent of
their annual work hours to community service activities.” 
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