Cambridge Bay's future nurses, dentists, doctors and researchers celebrated the end of this year's Health Camp with Actua instructors Pam Lee Shanok, Mia Patriarca and Kate Varsava! This year's Actua camp for nine to 13-year-old students was held from July 25-29th at the Arctic College Community Learning Centre in Cambridge Bay.

Applications are now being accepted for Nunavut Arctic College’s exciting Midwifery and Maternity Care programs in Cambridge Bay. Classes begin in September 2011! Apply today!

Annie Neglak is an Inuit Elder from Cambridge Bay with a passion for literacy. A graduate of Nunavut Arctic College's Adult Basic Education and Social Services Worker Diploma programs, she's about to begin the journey of a lifetime! At the invitation of Professors Nina Hermansen and Jan-Erik Henriksen of Finnmark University College, she will be spending the month of May studying literacy programs for new immigrants and refugees in Northern Norway, the land of the Sami.

Nunavut Arctic College Social Services Worker student and talented drum dancer Rene Aggark of Arviat welcomed Cambridge Bay residents to their graduation last week. Congratulations Rene, from all your friends and family back home in Arviat! It's been a lot of hard work, and hasn't always been easy to travel and study so far from home, but you did it! We are very proud of your accomplishments! Ajungi!

Cambridge Bay's Kitikmeot Campus celebrated graduates of the Nunavut Arctic College Social Services Worker Program (formerly Human Services) last week. They are, (from left to right): Tina Audlakiak (Pangnirtung), Annie Neglak (Cambridge Bay), Rene Aggark (Arviat), Kendell Greenley-Aknavigak (Cambridge Bay), Joyce Aqqiaruk (Pond Inlet) and Shannon Kemukton (Cambridge Bay).

We would like to extend our congratulations all of our graduates on their hard work and commitment to the program, and wish them the best of success in their future careers.