April 4, 2025

Students from Prince William Sound College (PWSC) and Valdez High School (VHS) achieved outstanding success at the recent 2025 State Leadership and Skills Conference hosted by SkillsUSA Alaska.

Prince William Sound College (PWSC) proudly supported the Cordova middle school team at the recent Alaska Science Olympiad in Fairbanks, where students earned a gold medal in mariculture (agricultural sciences). The event provided these enthusiastic students with a unique glimpse into university life, hands-on STEM education, and the thrill of academic competition.

Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin — Minto Flats — is big enough to swallow Denali, if the big mountain happened to stumble in here and fall.

The third and final NASA sounding rocket in a mission to better understand how the aurora affects the upper atmosphere launched at 1:33 a.m. Saturday and dispersed white vapor tracers high over central Alaska.