JOB CORPS Throughout the month of July, students at the Alaska Job Corps Center rallied around the importance of different cultures at both the Center and from around the world. They celebrated diversity and culture through multiple events, held every Thursday during July,...
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Alaska Job Corps students teach Native Youth Olympics activities to school children and Seattle Seahawks football stars at community service event
As part of the United Way of Mat-Su’s “Play 60” event held on July 12 at the Curtis Menard Sports Center, eight talented students from Alaska Job Corps demonstrated important aspects of Alaska Native culture to more than 100 children and even to two Seattle Seahawks...
Alaska Job Corps is part of College Culture Day
It was a day of connection and culture at the Mat Su College. Over 50 Alaska Job Corps Native Alaskan students joined in the potlucks, singing, dancing, drumming and conversations that continued all day at the Machatanz theater. The College’s Native Cultures Club...
Alaska Native Job Corps Students love Mat Su Community College Culture Club
Alaska Job Corps students “came home” at the Mat Su College’s Alaska Native Cultures Club Wednesday, November 18. The community college extension of the University of Alaska hosted a full day celebration in honor of the coming of winter, also known as “Heyi nittu,”...