BRIGHT Girls summer academy accepts applications

February 28, 2017

Photo courtesy BRIGHT Girls. Participants in the 2016 BRIGHT Girls program wade in the Tanana River near Nenana while fishing and mapping habitat characteristics. From left are Paige Burkett, Maggie Whitaker, Christina Nuss, Ana Li Hansen, Sierra Tyssedal and Emma Jerome.

Applications for the BRIGHT Girls summer academy are now open. The deadline is April 1.

BRIGHT Girls offers two-week, free, day-only academies in Fairbanks (July 10-21) and Juneau (July 24-Aug. 4) for high school girls.

Participants explore the biology and habitat of salmon (in Fairbanks) or harbor seals (in Juneau).

Expect to go boating, take pictures, use science tools and technology, take measurements in the field and the lab, and explore the outdoors with new friends.

Visit brightgirlsak.org to learn more and submit an application.

BRIGHT (Budding Research Investigators in Geosciences, Habitat and Technology) Girls is a three-year project, funded by the National Science Foundation, to build participation in the sciences.