The public is invited to celebrate World Ocean Day with family-friendly activities and educational booths in Kalakaua Park this Saturday. World Ocean Day is on June 8 every year and is an internationally recognized day of awareness designed to encourage people to start and continue restoring and protecting the oceans. The Downtown Hilo Museum Square — which includes Mokupapapa Discovery Center, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum and Pacific Tsunami Museum — will be hosting an event aimed at keiki education for the third year in a row.
Staff from the Pacific Tsunami Museum will be at the park to teach attendees how to identify the types of waves and the sounds that come during an oncoming tsunami and to discuss Hilo’s history. “Our activities will be keiki-oriented to best teach them what to do if they ever have to encounter a tsunami, which is our main mission,” said Heather Weiss, visitor services associate at the museum. “We are trying to focus on being at as many events as we can to educate people while becoming more involved in the community.
World Ocean Day is perfect for that.” The Hawaii Science and Technology Museum will host an activity in its exhibit hall involving microscopes and the tiniest creatures of the ocean from Chaminade University’s “I AM A SCIENTIST” program. At the park, the museum’s Hummingbirds Children’s Chorus will perform at 10 a.
m. followed by the youth band, Two Years Apart, at 12 p.m.
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