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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the spring 2019 semester concluded, students in the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Business class Principles of Marketing (MKT 195) introduced an array of products and original brands, created using mostly or all natural resources from on-island. As a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Near the end of the spring 2019 semester, the automotive instruction program at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), which falls under the institution’s Trades & Technical Department (TTD), received a major boost when the local branch of the United States...
Washington, DC – Thursday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata announced she has teamed up with Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI) for the introduction of the bipartisan Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa College Access Act to provide tuition assistance to students in the islands.
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Washington, D.C. — CNMI Del. Gregorio Sablan has introduced legislation authorizing special federal tuition assistance for graduates of Northern Marianas College and American Samoa Community College who want to pursue a four-year degree at any public university in the United States, Sablan's office...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Land Grant Division hosted a Breadfruit Agroforestry Workshop at the ACNR Conference Room on April 24. This professional development workshop built upon the time-tested...
O le fa'auluuluga o le Vaega a le Nursing i le ASCC Lele Ah Mu ma le tama'ita'i Tausima'i Pasi o Josie Lam Yuen Fuga, loa fo'i lana tautua i le LBJ, ua i ai fa'atasi ma tausima'i Pasi uma e faia le latou fa'alauiloaga o latou galuega aoga i le mamalu o le atunu'u, ae maise i taimi o talavai. Olo ua...
International Jazz Day 2019 will be celebrated locally on Tuesday, April 30. The American Samoa Community College will host this day with a Lunchtime date with Jazz — A Jazz presentation of “Tale of 2Samoas – Our Samoan Jazz Story – followed by a Live Lunchtime Jazz performance with musicians of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Thursday April 4th, the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Political Science Club welcomed Tofoitaufa Sandra King-Young as its Guest Speaker. The Director of the local Medicaid Office, Mrs King-Young also serves as the Parliamentarian of the American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — High school graduates of American Samoan ancestry automatically qualify for the Pell Grant, which covers most if not all of the cost of them earning a bachelors degree in college. However, students born outside of the US and its territories often face a tremendous...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — From those who have long harvested from the sea, we hear the same sad tale over and over: “The fishing was so much better when I was young!” How can we begin to change this downward trend? One answer is to build local capacity in Marine Science, where traditional...

![ASCC Business student Rejoyce Saega displays her coconut leaf hats, one of the many original products created as a semester project by the Business Class Principles of Marketing (MKT 195). [photo: J. Kneubuhl] Rejoyce Saega displays her coconut leaf hats](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_products_a.jpg?itok=mnjbr_n4)
![ASCC Trades & Technical Department (TTD) program director Fred Suisala (front, right), instructor Jonathan Pouesi, and automotive class students gather around the Ford Explorer donated to the TTD by the USDA-NRCS. [photo: J. Kneubuhl] ASCC Trades & Technical Department (TTD) program director Fred Suisala with others and the vehicle](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_auto_donation_to_ttd.jpg?itok=Rt1bwk_e)
![Congresswoman Amata with Congressman Sablan during Committee work this week [courtesy photo] Congresswoman Amata with Congressman Sablan](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sablan_n_amata.jpg?itok=jryA2J-K)

![Presenters from the Breadfruit Agroforestry Workshop held at the ASCC Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division on April 24, 2019. Front row (l-r) Swains Island Representative Su‘a Alexander Jennings, former ACNR Director HC Tauiliili Pemerika and Cheat Day owner Tina Reid. Second row (l-r) Agriculture Extension Program Manager Autagavaia Tunai Alfred Peters, Jim Currie, Dr. Craig Elevitch and ASCC-ACNR Director Aufa‘i Apulu Ropeti Areta. [Photo: D. Helsham, ASCC-ACNR] Front row (l-r) Swains Island Representative Su‘a Alexander Jennings, former ACNR Director HC Tauiliili Pemerika and Cheat Day owner Tina Reid. Second row (l-r) Agriculture Extension Program Manager Autagavaia Tunai Alfred Peters, Jim Currie, Dr. Craig Elevitch and ASCC-ACNR Director Aufa‘i Apulu Ropeti Areta.](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/breadfruit_workshop_5852_1.jpg?itok=K_30HiYY)



![The spring 2019 recipients of the ASCC Presidential Merit and Saili le Atamai in-house scholarships are (l-r) Shiting Huang, Shiqi Huang, Elisapeta Sagote and Mark Espiritu. [photo: J. Kneubuhl] The spring 2019 recipients of the ASCC Presidential Merit and Saili le Atamai in-house scholarships are (l-r) Shiting Huang, Shiqi Huang, Elisapeta Sagote and Mark Espiritu.](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_scholarship_recipients.jpg?itok=A8CWzjuC)
