Alaska

School supply drive

Point Hope and Point Lay

During the first quarter of 2016, I became aware of the immediate need for school supplies in the Inupiat villages of Point Hope and Point Lay. Due to their remote locations, and budget issues in the district, the schools were in short supply.

I spearheaded an initiative to collect school supplies for the children (also shareholders of my employer at the time, ASRC Federal). Within 3 months, the program became the fastest growing initiative in the history of ASRC, and locations in 7 states across North America began collecting, along with help from Live Civilly - a NJ local non-profit.

Enough supplies were collected to stock the schools for more than 2 years.

S.T.E.M. advocation

University of Alaska Fairbanks

In August of 2016, I travelled to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to speak about my experiences in STEM education, in order to promote the development of a STEM curriculum in Inupiat schools on the North Slope of Alaska.

Lockheed Martin and the North Slope Borough School District were in attendance, in addition to staff and students from Ilisagvik Community College, as well as representatives from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Anchorage.

During the layover in Anchorage, our team intercepted and sorted the school supplies collected above, and shipped them to the villages of Point Hope and Point Lay.

S.T.E.M. CAMP

Point Hope

As a result of the trip to UAF (above), our team designed and developed a STEM camp geared towards middle school and high school Inupiat students.

We travelled to the village of Point Hope, where we hosted a 2-day event consisting of activities in computer programming, satellite operations, hardware assembly, and water rocket propulsion and trajectory.

The success of this event led to the development of a similar camp in the village of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska.

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