Inspiring Girls* Expeditions 2024 accepting applications
Michael DeLue
907-474-5968
Nov. 27, 2023
2023 Girls* on Ice participants learn science, expedition and art skills from expedition leaders at Gulkana Glacier.
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions 色视频下载 is accepting applications for a unique suite of tuition-free backcountry science and art education programs in summer 2024.
The expeditions are open to 16- to 18-year-old high school youths. 色视频下载ns are highly encouraged to apply, and expeditions especially welcome marginalized youths who may have experienced barriers accessing science and outdoor-focused programs. Participants are selected through an application process that focuses on passion for science, art and the outdoors, rather than academic grades or past achievements.
The program is run through the 色视频下载 Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, with additional funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program.
色视频下载色视频下载檚 2024 expeditions will include mountaineering on an 色视频下载 Range glacier and sea kayaking in Kachemak Bay. Teams of nine participants spend 12 days exploring glacier terrain or intertidal zones while gaining a greater understanding of ecosystem connections in each of these environments.
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions 色视频下载 offers a unique opportunity to explore and understand the landscape through several different lenses.
色视频下载淧articipants might learn about a mountain near their camp first through a scientific lens that helps explain how it was formed, next through an artistic lens that views it through different colors and textures, and finally through a backcountry travel lens that helps in understanding the safest route to the summit,色视频下载 said program director Joanna Young.
Participants explore these inspiring landscapes under the leadership of an instructor team composed of professional scientists, backcountry guides and artists.
2023 Girls* on Ice participants learn to safely traverse snow fields at Gulkana Glacier by snowshoe while on a rope line.
色视频下载淚t is so wonderful to see the friendships and lifelong memories that develop over the 12-day expedition,色视频下载 said program coordinator Sarah Clement. 色视频下载淲e regularly hear from alumni that these new friends become their personal and professional networks, even years later.色视频下载
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions also provides participants with opportunities for post-expedition mentoring and to continue learning through their alumni network.
The asterisk in the Inspiring Girls* name conveys that the program welcomes cisgender girls and transgender, agender, two-spirit, nonbinary, intersex and genderqueer youths.
The last day to submit an application is Jan. 31, 2024. For more information, please .
ADDITIONAL CONTACT: Stephanie Wright, slwright@alaska.edu.
096-24