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DECEMBER

DEC 3-6 ALASBO Annual Conference

Anchorage: Annual conference of the Alaska Association of School Business Officials. alasbo.org

DEC 6-8 2017 Alaska Young Fishermen's Summit

Dena'ina Center, Anchorage: AYFS is designed to provide training, information, and networking opportunities for commercial fishermen early in their careers. This year's summit focuses on building leadership and networking capacity in the Alaska commercial fishing industry through three days of intensive training. seagrant.uaf.edu

DEC 7-9 ASGA Conference

Cape Fox lodge, Ketchikan: The annual conference of the Alaska Shellfish Growers Association includes technology transfer sessions, shellfish gear demonstrations, a general membership meeting, regulator updates, and panel discussion. alaskashellfish.org

JANUARY 2018

JAN 16-18 35th Annual Health Summit

Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage: The 2018 summit theme is "Finding Our Way Forward" and the conference focuses on building public health system capacity, health promotion, health protection and security, public health research and evaluation, and emerging issues. alaskapublichealth.org

JAN 22-26 Alaska Marine Science Symposium

Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage:

Scientists, researchers, and students from Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond come together to communicate research activities in the marine regions of Alaska. amss.nprb.org

JAN 25 Junior Achievement of Alaska Awards Banquet

Dena'ina Center, Anchorage: Four new Alaskans will be inducted and recognized with this prestigious award. Attended by more than 400 business representatives, the program consists of a networking reception, dinner, and awards ceremony. www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-alaska

JAN 25-27 Anchorage AEYC Early Childhood Conference

Hilton Anchorage: The 2018 theme is "Big or Small, Success for ALL: Supporting the Leaders of Tomorrow." Join other early childhood community members to learn new strategies, hear about the latest research, try out a few practical techniques, and discover new tools and resources to help face any challenge related to working with young children. anchorageaeyc.org

JAN 27-28 Alaska RTI Conference

Dena'ina Center, Anchorage: Invited presenters this year include Michael Horn and Heather Staker, authors of Blended; Dr. Doug Fisher and Anita Archer, who will focus on using explicit instruction and lessons from Visible Learning for Literacy; math and RTI experts Dr. Doug Clements and Dr. Karen Karp; and more. More than...