HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawai‘i

HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawaiʻi 2025 Fall Challenge: Food is Memory

On this episode of HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawaiʻi, our host reveals the winning entries of the HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawaiʻi 2025 Fall Challenge. For this Challenge, the prompt was “FOOD IS MEMORY.” Usually, students have weeks to work on projects for HIKI NŌ and lots of help from teachers and professional industry mentors, but for Challenge competitions, students get only five days to produce their stories.

Air Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2026 7:30 PM

On this episode of HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawaiʻi, our host reveals the winning entries of the HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawaiʻi 2025 Fall Challenge. For this Challenge, the prompt was “FOOD IS MEMORY.”

Usually students have weeks to work on projects for HIKI NŌ and lots of help from teachers and professional industry mentors, but for Challenge competitions, students get only five days to produce their stories.

These contests provide students with the opportunity to review and learn HIKI NŌ production standards, test their skills, and get a taste for what it is like to produce work under professional deadlines as they model professional journalists and conduct interviews, capture footage and edit their stories without any hands-on help from teachers or HIKI NŌ’s industry mentors.

The winning stories’ scores were based on production and storytelling criteria as well as how they fit the prompt.

The show is hosted by Raylen Grace Ganir, a 4th grader at Honowai Elementary School on Oʻahu.

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