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UAF Youth Programs

Find your reason to give.

Name: UAF Youth Programs
Start: 2025-03-25T12:00:00-0800
End: 2025-03-27T13:00:00-0800
Location: UA Giving Day 2025

Ready or not, here it comes – UA Giving Day!

Across all our campuses, you'll find hundreds of reasons to support Nanook Nation. Now through 1 p.m. on March 27, explore the university priorities below to discover new ways to empower students, drive innovation and build brighter futures.

Don't miss out! Scroll the bottom of the page to see if your favorite program or scholarship has a match or challenge, so your impact can be doubled or even tripled.

Select UAF Youth Programs opportunities below to add a gift to your UA Giving Day cart.

UAF Inspiring Girls Expedition Support: Support tuition-free, 12-day backcountry field science and art program expeditions designed to empower high school-aged young women and gender-expansive youth.

Fostering Science Program Support: Help break down barriers in science and summer camp participation for Alaskan youth in foster care by providing free outdoor adventure experiences in science, art and Indigenous culture.

Rural Alaska Honors Institute: Help offer rural and Alaska Native high school students from across the state a 40+ years-running summer program that provides an opportunity to see life as a university student, develop college success skills and earn college credit.

GeoForce Alaska Support: Support students from the North Slope, Northwest Arctic and Interior in their exploration around Alaska and throughout the country to learn about geology and career paths in geosciences. Students are recruited in 8th or 9th grade and travel for four summers.

UAF Summer Music Academy: Support the education and artistic activities of the UAF Summer Music Academy.

AK Science Olympiad: Support this nationwide youth competition consisting of hands-on, team-based STEM tournaments including experimental design, knowledge tests and construction challenges.

National Ocean Sciences Bowl: Support ocean sciences academia among high school students with this exciting research presentation opportunity, trivia quiz bowl and summer camp hosted in Seward, AK in partnership with the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

$10,000

UA John C. Hughes Foundation for Alaska Educators

Thank you John C. Hughes Foundation and UA Giving Day donors! $10,000 has been unlocked to support the Patricia Hughes Eastaugh Teaching Scholarship and education students systemwide.

1,500 / 1,500 Donors

Completed

$2,000

UA Engineers Make it Happen Challenge

Thank you Stephanie Erickson and donors that are investing in UA programs as a solution to keeping and cultivating more bright community members working in Alaska. $2,000 has been unlocked for UAA College of Engineering and UAFA College of Engineering and Mines.

750 / 750 Donors

Completed

Match

UAF Inspiring Girls Expedition Match Challenge

Thank you to our two anonymous supporters and Inspiring Girls* Expeditions donors! $5,000 has been unlocked to support the Inspiring Girls Expeditions Support Fund.

Completed

$2,000

UAF Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAF alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAF General Scholarship!

Completed

$2,000

UAA Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAA alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAA scholarships.

350 / 350 Donors

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$1,000

UAF Flower Power Hour Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAF donors! $1,000 has been unlocked to support the upkeep of the Georgeson Botanical Garden.

Completed

$1,000

UAF Fostering Science Program Challenge

Thank you Andre and Theresa Reed and Steve and Elena Sparrow and Fostering Science donors! $1,000 has been unlocked to support the Fostering Science Program Support Fund.

Completed

$10,000

UA Supporting Alaska's Educators Challenge

Thank you UA Foundation Director and Former Regent Mary K. Hughes and UA Giving Day donors! $10,000 has been unlocked to support the Patricia Hughes Eastaugh Teaching Scholarship and education students systemwide.

1,000 / 1,000 Donors

Completed

$10,000

UA Launch Power Hour

Thank you UA Foundation Board of Directors and UA Giving Day's first 200 donors! $10,000 has been unlocked for scholarships at UAA, UAF, UAS, and their community campuses.

200 / 200 Donors

Completed

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UAF Alaska Science Olympiad Triple Your Gift Challenge

Thank you Brian Rasley and UAF Alaska Sceince Olympiad donors! $5,000 has been unlocked to support the UAF Alaska Science Olympiad Fund.

Completed

$2,000

UAS Alumni Challenge

Thank you President Pitney and UAS alumni! $2,000 has been unlocked to support the UAS General Scholarship!

65 / 65 Donors

Completed

$6,000

UA Alaska Values Indigenous Knowledge Challenge

Thank you to the 2025+ donors that unlocked this additional support for these important initiatives at the University of Alaska, Troth Yeddha' Indigenous Center, Alaska Leaders Archive, and Cyril George Indigenous Knowledge Collection.

2,025 / 2,025 Donors

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