English Synopsis: Mūkīkī Wai Nā Mamo O Mānoa is an annual event that was created in 2005 as a venue to showcase students' accomplishments in Hawaiian Language acquisition. Participants enter categories such as speech (traditional and casual), storytelling, song composition and book composition. Participants also showcase contemporary communication

mediums such as theater, film and multimedia presentations. Students from various levels of language learning (beginning, intermediate, advanced and graduate level) are encouraged to participate which pushes them to aspire to reach higher levels of language fluency and competency as they strengthen their language skills through participating in the event.