Shana Sheehy interviewed AYEA teens Sarah Wilson and Mariah Knox about their duty at the 2010 Girdwood Forest Fair. To condone the disposal of fair attendee trash, they would cheer when someone recycled properly and would boo if not. Check out the interview here!

In July of 2010, high school students gathered in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska to “Get Creative ‘bout Real Food.”  Communities represented included Anchorage, Bethel, Dillingham, Kasigluk, Kotlik, Noatak, Palmer, Pilot Station, Quinhagak, and Togiak.

Check out how the AYEA Summer Training in Bethel went by visiting our blog and reading our Report Back.

Memoirs and Poems here!

AYEA is conducting a Program Evaluation of our work with Alaska’s youth during the past 10 years. We want to know what YOU think about AYEA! What inspired you? What was your favorite training? Your least favorite one? If you are a grad, what are you doing now? We want to know it all!

The evaluation will consist of online surveys and interviews of AYEA members, graduates, staff, adult mentors, and volunteers! Would you like to take the survey or be interviewed? You can access all of the surveys right here! Check it out below!

AYEA Member Survey! click here to take the member survey! High School students that have graduated or will graduate after/on May 2009!

AYEA Graduate Survey! click here to take the grad survey! AYEA members that graduated before May 2009

Adult Mentor Survey – Coming Soon! Please contact Anna Barnwell at (907)339-3904 or barnwella@ayea.org to take part.

All surveys and interviews should be completed by mid-August. If you would like to find out more about the evaluation (if you have ideas or would like to be interviewed) please contact Anna Barnwell (AYEA grad and staff member) at barnwella@ayea.org or call her at (907) 339-3904.

Marcus Welker is our July AYEA Grad in Action!

Currently, Marcus Welker is interning for the Anchorage Waterways Council, where he is developing an “Adopt-A-Stream” program to complete the requirements of his Masters of Science degree in Aquatic Resource Management from King’s College, University of London. The “Adopt-A-Stream” program will offer community and school groups, institutions, and businesses, the chance to protect, monitor, and improve local streams.

Prior to going to London for his MS Program, Marcus obtained his Bachelors of Science in Natural Sciences from the University of Alaska Anchorage in May 2009. Marcus was an integral part of the sustainability movement while at UAA, participating in Student Government as the Chair of the Sustainability Council, managing the Sustainability Club, and as a Student Representative on the Chancellors Council for Sustainability. Marcus successfully organized a trip for himself and several other students to attend the Power Shift 2007 Conference, the first youth-led summit on climate change. Marcus’ UAA group and the AYEA group coordinated lobbying efforts and tackled the job of presenting our ideas on climate change to Alaska’s three federal representatives while in Washington, D.C. Marcus has continued to support AYEA, by being a stalwart advocate for all of the values those at AYEA hold dear.

In the fall, Marcus will be attending Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he will begin his PhD in the Ecology program studying historical reconstructions of salmon populations. One day Marcus hopes to return to Alaska to begin managing Alaskan salmon populations in a more long-term sustainable manner, so that those who come after us will respect our management decisions. Go Marcus!

Going on a sweet hike? Traveling abroad? Riding your bike to school or work? Wear your AYEA t-shirt and take a photo! Then send it to us or put it on our Facebook Wall! Need a shirt? Check out our online store or stop by the AYEA office!

Getting Creative About Real Food.
July 26-30, 2010 in Bethel, AK

• Tundra Drums article, August 12 2010
• AYEA’s 2010 Summer Training Blog
• AYEA Summer Training Poems and Memoirs

Press from our Annual Civics & Conservation Summit Training in the State Capital.

• Homer Tribune, March 31 2010
• Senator Linda Menard’s Newsletter, March 25 2010
• Alaska Teen Media Institute – Student Reporter Aviva Hirsch’s radio story, March 27 2010
• Anchorage Daily News Spirit of Youth Blog, “Teens tackle politics for a more sustainable Alaska”, March 23, 2010

• “Students deliver message to Legislature in person”, HomerNews.com, March 31, 2005

Find Resources and ways to get involved in your community on our Recycling & Solid Waste page!

Recycling & Solid Waste Press

• AYEA Teens Making Trash Disposal FUN!
  • An Audio interview by Shana Sheehy with AYEA teens Sarah Wilson and Mariah Knox at the 2010 Girdwood Forest Fair
• JAYEA- Plastic to Metal, Juneau Empire,  April 6 2010

Press:  Get Outdoors

• Get Outside, Anchorage Daily News, 2008