Three Academy students won awards in this year’s Keiki Day Contest, with winners named in the special Keiki Day edition of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.        

Eighth grader Lesna O’Donnell won for her grade level with a poem while sophomore Ivy Yeoh and senior Jessica Wehrman won for their essays. All entries wrote about the theme, “Diversity.”

For the past two decades, Keiki Day has been an annual fundraising event “that highlights the complicated issues facing families and youngsters in Hawaii,” according to the Star-Advertiser which benefits the Parents And Children Together (PACT) organization.