Cultivate Hawaii Workforce Collaborative
is a work-based learning collaborative creating access and opportunities for Hawaii’s students to excel in today’s workforce.

  • Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund

    Leilehua Complex is amongst 31 program recipients of the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER). With these funds, the Leilehua Complex will lead the state in Ag-Tech & Natural Resources programs.

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  • The What Schools Could Be Podcast: Episode 93

    Listen to this episode of The What Schools Could Be Podcast featuring Leilehua High School's Natural Resources teacher Jackie Freitas and her amazing Ag program in Wahiawa, Hawaii. In this episode, Jackie talks about cultivating, nourishing, and shaping the minds of the next generation of young farmers, engineers, coders, and makers who will move Hawaiʻi to a more sustainable approach to feeding our communities. Hint: Computer Science and Agriculture go hand in hand!

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  • Pick Prep & Pitch Camp

    A 3-day farm-to-product program for middle school students entering Leilehua High School. Students engage in three pathways during this camp, Natural Resources, Culinary, and Business, while becoming familiar with their future high school.

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Our Mission:

As Work-Based Learning champions, we empower Hawaii’s students to achieve meaningful and sustainable careers by engaging community, industry, government, and educators in all aspects of Career and Technical Education and Work-Based learning. As a result, our graduates live, learn, work, play and stay in their communities while earning a competitive and livable wage.

Cultivating Careers and Community: 

Cultivate Hawai’i is working to help schools in the state of Hawai’i graduate students who are skilled and ready to work in their local community. We currently support Leilehua Complex in Agriculture & Ag-Tech, Value-Added Food Manufacturing, and Entrepreneurialism. Our goal is to help strengthen our communities and help them thrive. We believe that by supporting our educators and students, we can create a brighter future for everyone in Hawai’i.

Connect. Collaborate. Excel.

We are proud to have cultivated partnerships with industry, educators, community and government organizations to support regional workforce needs. Our work-based learning programs have been successful in preparing graduates for careers in the agricultural technology industry as well as value-added food product development and entrepreneurship. We invite you to learn more about our programs and how you can support our efforts to continue cultivating a successful workforce in Hawai'i.

“Science and Technology coupled with improved human capital have been powerful drivers of positive change in the performance and evolution of smallholder systems.”

— Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Connect. Collaborate. Excel.

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