ANSEP’s Acceleration Academy offers college credits to high school students for free

Watch the full video here ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP), run through the University of Alaska, offers an Acceleration Academy that allows students to take full-time college classes while still in high school. The program, for students in grades 8 through 12, is free and can help families […]

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Alaska Natives Are Claiming Their Seat at the Table

Three decades ago, Herb Schroeder was working as a professor and engineer for the University of Alaska, researching rural sanitation. But in that work, he never met a native Alaskan engineer. So in 1995, he decided to change that, by founding the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program within UAA to support Alaska natives from […]

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ANSEP’s Janelle Anausuk Sharp Studies Arctic Sinkholes

Janelle Anausuk Sharp, ANSEP Regional Director for the Anchorage Acceleration Academy, and a team of scientists researched a large lake in Alaska that is bubbling with methane! PBS’s Nova television science series “Arctic Sinkholes” followed them this summer as they worked to understand where these bubbles are coming from and how much gas is being released.  As the Arctic […]

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The state of Alaska saves $40,000 with each ANSEP student

The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program works with students starting in Kindergarten and every year after to the PhD level. ANSEP students go from the end of eighth grade to completing a STEM BS degree in just 5 years! Our education model saves the state of Alaska $40,000 with each ANSEP student and saves […]

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