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BSSD Sends Students to Hands-On STEM Camp

By admin | May 22, 2018

BSSD students work on an engineering project at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program Middle-School Academy (Photo: ANSEP, used with permission)

Middle-school students from across the Bering Strait School District got hands-on experience at a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) camp last month.

Nome’s Rescued Walrus Calf Transitioning Away from SeaLife Center, Possibly in Near Future

By Davis Hovey | August 31, 2017

Walrus and calf. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

“Walrus calves typically spend one to two years with Mom, learning to be a walrus, and we can’t possibly replicate that,” Dr. Carrie Goertz with SeaLife said of Aku, the young 180-pound walrus calf being cared for at the Center.