February 15, 2007
Native dancing at the Mekoryuk Reindeer Festival. (Photo by Nancy Widrig.)
The Career Pathways Program joined Mekoryuk's three-day annual Reindeer Festival on December 8 to promote health careers to K-12 students and adults.
Evening activities followed an afternoon school visit and Native Youth Olymics event, and included traditional dancing, raffle prizes, display tables of arts and crafts, education, and health careers information, and concluded with fiddle dancing by festival participants.
More recently, Career Pathways visited Tuluksak and Akiachak in the Yupiit School District to talk with students about various health career paths, education programs and scholarship opportunities.
Career Pathways will visit other area school districts in the months to come.
For information about upcoming activities, or for health careers information, contact the YK-Area Health Education Center, Career Pathways Program at 907-543-6986, or 1-800-478-3321, ext. 6986.