The Chugach School District has schools in three different communities around Prince William Sound - Whittier, Tatitlek, and Chenega Bay. Students from these schools as well as Nanwalek, Port Graham, Seldovia, Valdez, Cordova and Seward participate in the program. This web page was designed and created primarily by Youth Area Watch students to explain what the program is and what students do.
Text added by coordinators is in italics.
Students come from Chenega Bay, Cordova, Nanwalek, Port Graham, Seldovia, Seward, Tatitlek, Valdez and Whittier. There are a total of 30 students in YAW this year and our project coordinators are Jennifer Childress and Joshua Hall. Everyone is involved with these projects somehow - taking samples, recording data, or making phone calls. To collect samples and conduct research we sometimes travel by boat or plane to reach remote sites. This can be really fun and exciting.