Apply now for Nalukai Summer 2025
Accepting applications until April 21
NALUKAI ACADEMY
Nalukai offers intensive programs for Hawaiʻi high school students focused on social, cultural, and commerical entrepreneurship. Learn more about our signature summer program by clicking the button below!
Founder Testimonial
Check out this video to hear from 2024 Nalukai Founder Marlon Utrera Jr. about his experience at Nalukai Academy Summer!
OUR PROGRAMS
NALUKAI ACADEMY SUMMER
Our signature program is a free, 10-day boarding program offered free of charge to Hawaiʻi high school students that provides immersive training in social, cultural and commercial entrepreneurship.
Each student will receive guidance from industry experts, innovative educators and cultural practitioners to ideate, develop and pitch ventures of their own creation. Along the way they'll step into new leadership roles, build lasting connections and learn how to combine passion, rigor, and technical ability to address the challenges our Hawaiʻi communities face.
NALUKAI FALL/SPRING REGIONAL PROGRAMS
During 6-day, in-person camps held as daily sessions during DOE Fall and Spring breaks, students will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing our island and collaborate with others to develop products, services, and other solutions to address them.
Our regional programs highlight location-based education and are exclusive to applicants from select Hawai’i Island high schools. Our 2024 Spring program will be open to current high school students at Kanu o ka ʻĀina, Parker School, Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy, Kohala High School, Kealakehe High School, and West Hawaiʻi Explorations Academy, including remote learners living in West Hawaiʻi
NALUKAI FOUNDATION & ALUMNI NETWORK
Our Alumni and College Success programs remain engaged with the next generation of Hawaiʻi changemakers throughout their academic and professional careers with college prep, networking and work-based learning opportunities at organizations driving sustainable development in our community.
Find out more about our offerings and opportunities for aspiring Hawaiʻi youth here.
