Community
May 2 – 10, 2024Â Â Â Wilderness First Responder Course
The course is a comprehensive and in-depth look at standards and skills dealing with: Response and Assessment, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Environmental Emergencies, Survival Skills, Soft Tissue Injuries, and Medical Emergencies. Additional topics, such as CPR, are also included. This course is held over an intensive 8 days, on a 9am-6pm schedule. There is a day off in the middle of the training schedule which runs May 2-5, scheduled day off on May 6, and then completes May 7-10.Â
Challenger Outreach Events
Education in STEM, space, and workforce development is our main mission at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska. We value our community and love sharing our passion with all ages! Throughout the year we look for opportunities to give back and share some of our programmings in our community. The best way to see upcoming events is to follow our Facebook page.
Free Community Event, Celebrate the Total Eclipse
April 8, 2024Â 3pm – 5pm
We will not be able to see the total eclipse in Alaska this time but we sure can still celebrate our love for it! Free for all ages, multiple experimentation stations on the eclipse, the sun, our solar system, and more.
Food Security and Sustainability, Wild Harvest Workshop
September 28th, 2022 9:00am – 3:30pm
Join Challenger Learning Center as we learn from local experts in wild harvesting for food sustainability. This workshop
 will be the second of its series, introducing and exploring what is wild harvest, how rules are decided and applied to certain harvests and areas, fishing methods, hunting prep, firearms safety, foraging plants, and Alaskan Native harvesting traditions and stories. Participants will learn insider resources, tips, and information to get them on their way to harvesting Alaska’s resources themselves.
If you have been harvesting for years or want to start but need some guidance to sort through all the possibilities, this is a great workshop for you! Sept 28th get your fishing, hunting, and plant harvest refresher, extra tips, or learn something new!
Registration is free for the 9 am – 3:30 pm Workshop and lunch will be provided.Â
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James Webb Community Event
September 9th, 2022 2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Food Security and Sustainability, Grow Your Own Workshop
May 7th, 2022 9:00am – 3:00pm
 food sustainability. This workshop will be the first of its series, introducing and exploring seeds and seed saving, soil building and composting, growing methods, and crop selection, as well as a hands-on element similar to all of Challenger’s programs. Participants will be able to “get their hands dirty” and take something home to start them out on the right foot.This program is sponsored by grant partners, NASA, Space Grant Alaska, and NISE Net Sustainable Futures Grant. “This material is based in part upon work supported by NASA through the Alaska Space Grant Program (80NSSC20M0070).”
 “This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award numbers NNX16AC67A and 80NSSC18M0061. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).”
Star Party
April 9th, 2022 7:30pm – 10:30pm
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James WEBB Telescope Community Event
October 20, 2021 4pm – 6pmÂ
Celebrate and learn about NASA’s new James Webb space telescope (WEBB) before the big space launch! October 20th, bring your family to Challenger Learning Center of Alaska for interactive activities exploring this magnificent WEBB telescope, from how it’s made, what it sees, to why it’s so important. There will be activities for all ages including tours of our simulator rooms and a star planetarium! To really make your family experts for the launch, there will even be a virtual NASA specialist joining in to share insider information and answer your questions!
Dr. Vivian U, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of California, will join us via zoom at 5pm.
Send your WEBB questions ahead of time, about merging galaxies, supermassive black holes, using infrared observations from the Webb Telescope and/or large ground-based telescopes to colette.gilmour@akchallenger.org
If you can not make it but want to see or participate in Vivian U’s presentation you can join via Zoom or YouTube live (Challenger Learning Center of Alaska James WEBB Telescope Presentation with Vivian U. – YouTube). The links will be shared Wednesday morning on social media.
Informative Links: Â James Webb Telescope Overview | NASA
Educational Services we offer to the Community:
- Monthly visits to the Kenai Youth Detention Center
- Activities at the Soldotna Library
- Volunteer STEM Workshops such as Paper Rockets, Paper Engineering, and Spaghetti Towers at community events like the Soldotna Winter Games and Kenai River Fest.
- Free community events at the Challenger like our Nano Days, Star parties, and The Mission Continues: A Lunar Event!
- Team building and simulated space missions with teams like the USA Women’s Olympic Rugby team and The Kenai River Brown Bears.
- And so much more!
We can customize our programs for anyone in the community!
Call to discuss what you are looking for. Ask us about creating a custom camp, event, retreat, mission, or workshop!
855-477-7926
cassie.carversavok@akchallenger.org
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The Challenger Learning Center of Alaska offer students the next best thing to actual space flight with a Mission Control room designed after NASA Johnson Space Center and an orbiting space station. The Missions’ Commander and Flight Director direct our mission specialists in the orientation room where they are given an overview of the mission as well as their crew assignments.  A minimum of 14 and up to 32 people, will be divided between Mission Control and the Space Craft.  Following mid-brief, crew members will switch so each student experiences both Mission Control and the Space Craft. For more Mission details, visit http://www.akchallenger.org/schoolsandgroupsÂ
     
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