Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove on CBS featured ANSEP Summer Bridge students Amara Sanguni and Maya Woods! Interning with the U.S. Forest Service this past summer, they worked with USFS project engineer, Tchelet Segev to survey the land and restore the wetlands at Moose Flats. Watch the full video below! […]
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Michele Yatchmeneff discovered engineering when she was 17 years old after her professor pointed out that she was good at math. “I had met a chemistry teacher, and he said, ‘You’d be good at engineering’, and at first I didn’t even know what engineering was,” Yatchmeneff said. “I thought it was the person that sits […]
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Michele Yatchmeneff knew she wanted to be an engineer from the time she was a teenager. Yatchmeneff grew up in False Pass and King Cove, in the eastern Aleutians. She was raised in an Unangax̂ household, living a subsistence lifestyle. Right after high school, she enrolled in engineering classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks […]
This summer, 25 students from across the state participated of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Summer Bridge program. The program places ANSEP students in a ten-week paid engineering, science or business internship, giving them the chance to gain work experience and network with other STEM professionals. One of the students chosen this year […]
ANSEP Students and Alumni met U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski to learn about Alaska’s future workforce and how investments, research and development funding will bring jobs and help build a clean energy future! Their visit consisted of two days in Alaska traveling to showcase what Granholm’s office calls the […]
On August 13th, ANSEP students and their families attended ANSEP Aviation Day and toured the Boeing 737-9 ecoDemonstrator at the Alaska Airlines hangar. They were able to learn from experts in the field of science, engineering and aviation about how the ecoDemonstrator accelerates innovation by improving maintenance efficiency, enhancing safety, reducing waste and informing climate […]
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A new Acceleration Opportunity is open in Bethel! Students who participate can go from eighth grade to a BS degree in five years. Lower Kuskokwim School District students are participating now! The Acceleration Academy is expanding across Alaska. The first academy is in Anchorage and the second is in Palmer. Bethel will be the academy’s third […]
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Seventeen-year-old Ashe Christensen recently wrapped up a unique, six-week summer internship with the Bristol Bay Native Association that had her counting walruses, seabirds and salmon in remote parts of Alaska. Christensen, who is from Anchorage, was one of two summer interns at BBNA. The internship program started in 2000, and, so far, it has included […]
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The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, or ANSEP, was created in 1995 as a scholarship program for Alaska Native students. Now, ANSEP is available for all Alaskan residents, supporting more than 2,000 students. ANSEP has opportunities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, otherwise known as STEM, learning — beginning at kindergarten all the way to […]
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On May 8, 2021, ANSEP celebrated the Acceleration Academy senior students that are graduating high school! Overall, 19 Acceleration Academy graduates are going to enter college with over 1,000 college credits! 3 students had more than three years of credits earned towards a BS degree and 7 had more than two years of credits. We […]
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