Waikiki Community Center (I/T Center)

My schedule occasionally aligns with the monthly Waikiki Neighborhood Board meeting held at the Waikiki Community Center. It provides an adequate venue for holding these meeting. It is configured like your average Junior High Gym/Multi-purpose room with a stage fronting an open floor area. - In using it for the Waikiki Neighborhood Board meetings everything is setup on the main floor with audience/public folding chairs facing a semi-circle of tables where the board members are seated backed-up to the Stage. This arrangement works pretty good but sound has always been a challenge given the very bright acoustics of the hard floor/walls and ceiling. The only "damping" are the Stage drapes but overall they have little helpful effect. - It doesn't help that participants who present or comment largely do not know how to use a mic and the contracted A/V operators are very uneven on their skill level. Not only does this distract from being able to hear what is being considered when you are AT the meeting but it compromises the recordings that are made and later posted online that allow the rest of the Waikiki community to play back later. - One BIG heads-up to the A/V crew is to GET THERE EARLY enough to have time to not only pop-up the speaker stand but to fully test ALL the mics and bring a spare. Also ENSURE all mic batteries have been FULLY CHARGED before you pack the equipment and head to your destination. Testing these batteries with a meter once in awhile might help determine when they need to be replaced. - Again, overall glad there is somewhere local to meet, but I wish they'd solve the long standing A/V issues and if someone isn't using the mic correctly they should be interrupted and corrected before they are allowed to go on. Of course tell the presenters this ahead of time when you brief them on proper mic usage so you get better results.

Waikiki Community Preschool is wonderful. I love the staff and their structured system. Teachers are firm, but very very nurturing. Everything is a learning experience there, they know how to make kids follow their lead. I had a couple hard experiences before and I thought it would be harder to adjust myself to having my daughter go to school, but they have made my journey a lot easier than expected. I recommend this school to every parent.

My daughter went to preschool here and I will never ever forget how everyone here made it the best and memorable experience for my daughter and I. Miss Pam is awesome and I have no words to express how much she helped me when my daughter attended preschool there. Miss Briana hands down is one of the best teachers here. My daughter is attending kindergarten and the first day she asked me what happened to Miss Briana.. I wanted to cry.. but I told her she is at a new school now and Miss Briana is not your teacher anymore... My daughter was optimistic and said "No she is going to be back tomorrow". It made me break down..because of all the memories and how well they took care of my daughter and how they taught her was just another level of compassion and understanding... I really wish they had a grade school there so I could keep my daughter there. If you want your child to go to a preschool you can trust your child with I recommend Waikiki Community Preschool. They set the bar and expectations of the school and education standards that I want for my child. I always look back at the times my daughter went to school and I cannot express how much they helped me throughout my daughter's preschool years....

Some change is good and some change is bad. I miss the original staff as I felt they had better knowledge of the community and its services than the current management and staff do. We particularly miss Crystal. We would be more forgiving of these changes if management and staff seemed at all interested in our needs or thoughts.

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