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Video: Geoscience outreach gives rural Alaska teens experience

GeoFORCE Alaska is a summer geoscience outreach program run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics recruits high school students from Alaska villages to participate in field trips around the state and in the Lower 48 to learn about geology hands-on. The experience can be transformative, participants say.

Jerry Brower from Nuiqsut said the program gave him a new understanding of the world around him. "In the Native culture, nature is very important, it's the key of life. But I didn't actually understand why this happened or why that happened. Why I got stuck on this turn on the river but not this turn. But now after GeoFORCE it opened my eyes to why things happened."

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