- Thanks to a program called Upward Bound, rural Alaska high school students are getting more opportunities for higher education. Learn more and view a student-produced video about the event at the Connect Alaska Blog.
- In July of 2013, several senior high school students from rural parts of Alaska were invited to attend a college scholarship writing workshop as part of the Upward Bound Program in Fairbanks, Alaska. The workshop, entitled Talk Story, Write Story, was led by Tad Bartimus Wariner and Dean Wariner of Hana, Hawaii, and partially funded by the Association of Alaska School Boards and Connect Alaska. Learn more and view a video about the event at the Connect Alaska Blog.
- Alaska teachers from Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Chevak and Bethel attended a Talk Story, Write Story workshop last fall that produced four Gates Millennium Scholarship applicants. Read the full story at the Association of Alaska School Boards’ Initiative for Community Engagement newsletter, Kids These Days.