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Young Native Alaskans in rural villages face unique challenges due to physical isolation and the loss of traditional cultural support. Unifying projects or activities—such as basketball— can provide a lifeline for youth and communities

Students will watch a film, “I Am Yup’ik” about a 16-year-old named Byron Nicholai, a basketball player who lives in a tiny village in western Alaska and explore themes of identity, resilience, and youth empowerment.

This lesson uses an online building performance data platform to explore ways to measure, understand, and improve human experience in schools. This lesson focuses on indoor air quality and the impacts air quality can have on occupant health. Students will explore the ways indoor air quality is measured, how it relates to sustainability, and the differences in indoor air quality data between a green school and an average school.

This lesson uses an online building performance data platform to explore how schools use water, the relationship between water use and greenhouse gas emissions, and the differences in water use between an average school and a high-performance green school.

This lesson uses an online building performance data platform to explore how schools create waste, the relationship between waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions, and the differences in waste management between an average school and a high-performance green school.

Celebrate all that you’ve accomplished over the course of the week alongside some new friends from across the country.

Set goals for yourself by considering input from your peers, creating an advocacy plan, and shooting a short video to explain your next steps.

Apply your knowledge by getting out into your neighborhood, photographing and writing about what you see, and proposing a few changes you think would make it better.