Summer Science Opportunities for Your Students:

ASRA: Alaska Research Summer Academy - http://www.uaf.edu/asra/

Denali Science Camp - http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/dnl/dscamp/dsc.html

National Youth Science Camp - http://www.nysc.org/

Yosemite Science Camps - http://www.yni.org/main/

INSPIRE- NASA's Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience

High school students throughout the United States are invited to participate in INSPIRE, through the program’s Online Learning Community.

Applications are being accepted through June 30, 2010. NASA will make selections for the program in September.
Selectees will participate in an online learning community in which students and parents have the opportunity to interact with their peers and NASA engineers and scientists. The online community also provides appropriate grade-level educational activities, discussion boards and chat rooms. Participants and their families also gain exposure to the many careers and opportunities at NASA.
Students selected for the program will have the option to compete for unique grade-appropriate experiences during the summer of 2011 at NASA facilities and participating universities throughout the nation. INSPIRE is designed to encourage ninth- through 12th-grade students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The summer experience provides students a hands-on opportunity to investigate education and careers in those disciplines.
INSPIRE is part of NASA's education strategy to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines critical to NASA's missions.
For more information about this opportunity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/education/INSPIRE.
If you have questions about this opportunity, please e-mail your inquiries to INSPIRE Project Manager Steve Chance at steven.h.chance@nasa.gov.

K-12:  Great American Backyard Campout

http://www.backyardcampout.org
Remember summer evenings catching fireflies, star-gazing and sharing campfire stories? Create lasting memories and happier, healthier children by connecting with family and friends in the great outdoors. Join the National Wildlife Federation’s Great American Backyard Campout.  You can encourage your students and their families to participate too. Here are three ways you can get involved in this year's Great American Backyard Campout:
• Campout with your own family and friends.
• Encourage your students and their families to participate. Download this special event flyer for them to take home. Or you can post it on your bulleting board at school.
• Consider organizing a school-wide campout over the summer. Regster online to receive a campout planning guide to help create a fun event for students & their families.

Kids today spend half as much time outside as their parents did, missing out on the simple pleasures of daily outdoor time. The National Wildlife Federation knows that kids are healthier and happier when they spend time outside every day. Last year, 90,000 people across the country gathered to spend the night under the stars. Don’t miss out.

Join in on Saturday, June 26, for a night of fun, friendship, family, fresh air and fundraising.

Wildlife Society Conference Native Student Grant

The Wildlife Society offers a native student grant program for students to attend the national Wildlife Society Conference, October 2-6, 2010 in Snowbird, Utah.  Any Tribal, Native (Alaska, Hawaii, US Territories), or First Nations students enrolled in a wildlife/natural resources program at an accredited college or university is eligible.  The deadline for application is August 6, 2010.
Contact Heather Stricker at hstricker.wildlife@gmail.com

Students in Grades 10-12 Offered Summer Field Science

The University of Alaska Southeast in partnership with the Juneau Economic Development Council’s SpringBoard program invites Alaska's high schoolers to apply for twelve days of instruction, fun and outdoor adventure in this coming summer’s Discover Design & Research@ UAS.

Now in its second year, DDR offers five modules to choose from, each involving extraordinary campus- and field-based opportunities for students in grades 10-12 to
develop interests in and to learn about science, technology, engineering and math from Southeast Alaska’s finest instructors and scientsts. Four of the modules offer experiences in exceptional Southeast Alaska places that are especially well
suited for active field research.

Two modules delve into different areas and ecological aspects of Glacier Bay. Glacier Dynamics and Biologic Succession takes place in upper Glacier Bay aboard the 72-foot M/V Glacier Seal, with Mike Hekkers and Clay Good of UAS and Riley Woodford of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as instructors. Landscape Ecology in Motion focuses on lower Glacier Bay and is based in the Gustavus area, with UAS’s Dr. Cathy Connor as instructor. In another module -- Climate Change: How can you tell? -- students gather real-world climate change data from a variety of locations near the terminus of
Davidson Glacier south of Haines, led by Tim Shields and Pam Randles of the Takshanuk Watershed Council. In the fourth field-based module, operated in partnership with the Cape Decision Institute of the Cape Decision Lighthouse Society at the southern tip of Kuiu Island, students will accompany renowned Southeast author, artist and GIS expert Richard Carstensen and NOAA’s ShoreZone aerial mapping team on a GIS mapping
project. This module also includes time aboard the M/V Georgia Lee studying marine mammals under the tutelage of the Alaska Whale Foundation’s Dr. Fred
Sharpe. The fifth module is a residential college campus experience in which the students will explore the mathematical universe of logic, theory, systems, geometry, probability and statistics with UAS faculty members Andrzej Piotrowski and Brian Blitz.
All modules begin on June 13 at the UAS campus, and conclude at UAS’s Egan Lecture Hall on June 25 with presentations of findings by all participating students.

The field modules depart on June 16 for their respective destinations by boat, ferry or floatplane. With just 48 spaces among the five modules, students are encouraged to register early. Competition in the application process heats up with a required teacher reference and an essay that describes why each student wants to participate. To learn more or to apply, visit http://uas.alaska.edu/ddr or call Becca Parks at 907- 523-2334.
To learn more about the Juneau Economic Development Council and its SpringBoard programs, visit www.jedc.org/springboard or contact Larry West at 907-523-2328, lwest@jedc.org.