Learning Adventures

If you’re someone who loves to learn, Hawaii Island is an open book of exciting adventures you won’t find anywhere else. Our island is a 4,000-square-mile classroom, a vivid historical and cultural document, a living laboratory of intriguing scientific phenomena and a showcase of dramatic environmental processes. We’ve got lots of hands-on, non-virtual learning opportunities. Here you’ll find mountain summits nearly 14,000 feet high, the world’s most continuously active volcano, almost all of the planet’s climatic zones, diverse marine life, and birds and plants found nowhere else on the planet. Here you’ll also find the largest and most powerful telescopes in the world, facilities researching renewable energy resources, commercial cold-water aquaculture, and forward-looking experiments in biology, oceanography and ecology.