21st Century After School Programs - Fairbanks School District

Last day of ASP for the 2025-2026 school year! See you next September!

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Congratulations to Afterschool Superhero Hannah Jenks!

Hannah is the Afterschool Program Coordinator, 21st Century Community Learning Center, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

She is a mentor, a leader, an innovator, a caregiver, an educator and above all else, an inspiration. Often, it’s said that people go "above and beyond" what they're called to do, but this rings exceptionally true when it comes to Hannah. She empowers youth to be creative, to be innovative and to lead by example.

Thank you Hannah for being an Afterschool Superhero! Learn more about Hannah and the other Afterschool Superheroes: https://www.akafterschool.org/blog/2026-superheroes

Learning about time with Clock Bot at University Park ASP!

Join us Friday for Early Explorers: Outer Space! Children 5 and under and their grown-ups are invited to create, play, and discover together.

Included with museum admission. Kids 5 and under are free.
Museum members get in free!

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It's Youth Voice Week! A perfect moment to celebrate what afterschool programs do every day: giving young people the space to lead, speak up and make a difference in their communities. Throughout the week, programs and organizations across the country are sharing how they support youth-led advocacy, community projects and civic action.

Looking to bring more youth voice into your program? Let young people help shape what they do and how they do it, reflect their culture and identity in your programming, create leadership opportunities like peer mentors or youth advisory groups, and build in regular chances for feedback. Small shifts can make a big difference in how valued and heard young people feel.

Tag your posts with and join the national conversation.
Learn more and access the Youth Voice toolkit here: https://www.afterschoolalliance.org/YouthVoiceToolkit/

Our amazing students at Arctic Light Elementary ASP learn about beavers this month with our fabulous Americorp member Tamika! First, painting these little critters then next week? Diving into a museum kit about beavers and their habitats from our community partners at UAF’s Museum of the North!

Sewing is an important life skill that focuses on math and literacy! These students at Denali Elementary’s 21st CCLC ASP worked on a Kuspuk project, an Alaskan Native overshirt with a large front pocket. Kuspuk is an English word based on the Indigenous Yup’ik word “qaspeq” meaning cloth over parka! We love that our thoughtful instructors include these cultural elements for all of our amazing kids!

Helping our students learn and grow, not only academically, but culturally! Thank you to our community partner Denakkanaaga for the thoughtful and engaging lessons for our students at Hunter Afterschool Program!

After our academic sessions that include topics like literacy, math and science, we move to our enrichment classes! Learning to finger knit is a great motor skill, helps with math skills, and students have a useable product THEY created!

Food around the world! Any form of cooking is a great hands on STEM activity and delicious as well! While students learn about culture, food safety and preparation, they also get to expand their taste buds and try new things!