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Power Pledge 2024 Winners

More than 2,000 students from 90 fourth through twelfth grade classrooms around the state participated in the 2024 Power Pledge Challenge, an initiative aimed at helping youth better understand energy use. Students competed for regional and statewide prizes while learning...

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Posts / Alaska Specific / Curriculum / Energy Education / Renewable Energy

CEO 2024 Champions

The 2024 Clean Energy Olympics was once again a hybrid event. Thirteen teams competed in-person on March 23rd at Begich Middle School and another ten teams presented their projects virtually in the week before the competition. Teams representing Anchorage, Wasilla, Girdwood,...

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Posts / Building Science / Energy Education / Energy Efficiency

Spreading the Word on Home Energy Efficiency

On an unseasonably warm day in February, I flew up to Fairbanks to meet with families at the Fairbanks Native Association (FNA) Head Start program. Angi Thomas, FNA’s Head Start family wellness coordinator, had reached out to REAP the prior November to see what education we...

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Posts / Renewable Energy

Power Pledge 2023 Winners

Winners have been selected for the eleventh annual Power Pledge Challenge! Lori Holcomb’s 5th grade class at Talkeetna Elementary is this year’s statewide winner of the Power Pledge Challenge (PPC)! More than 2,200 third through twelfth grade students from 29...

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Posts / Renewable Energy

REAP is Hiring: Energy Education Contractor

Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) is seeking an educator to join its clean energy education and training team as a Contractor on a part-time basis for the summer of 2023. The Energy Education (EE) Contractor will assist with REAP’s education and outreach efforts to K-12...

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Posts / Renewable Energy

Power Pledge 2022 Winners

Winners have been selected for the tenth annual Power Pledge Challenge! Lisa Curtis’s 3rd/4th grade class at Talkeetna Elementary is this year’s statewide winner of the Power Pledge Challenge (PPC)! More than 1,200 Kindergarten through twelfth grade students from...

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Posts / Energy Education / Training

Forever learners: trainings for teachers

This fall REAP is offering several teacher trainings all about clean energy. A large part of the work that REAP’s educators do is offering trainings for teachers. We often hear how teachers just don’t know enough about energy to teach it, don’t know what...

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Posts / Alaska Specific / Curriculum / Energy Education / Energy Efficiency / Renewable Energy

Alaska Classrooms Compete in Statewide Power Pledge Challenge

More than 1,200 Kindergarten through twelfth grade students from 22 schools in eight regions around the state participated in the ninth annual Power Pledge Challenge (PPC), an initiative from AK EnergySmart aimed at helping youth better understand energy use. Participating...

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Alaska students compete at fourth annual Clean Energy Olympics

On March 26-31, 2022, Alaska students participated in the fourth annual Clean Energy Olympics competition. The Clean Energy Olympics is an engineering design challenge for Alaskan 4th-12th grade traditional and homeschool students. This year’s event was hybrid, with 10 teams...

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Posts / Renewable Energy

AK EnergySmart Website Has a Facelift – Just in time for Power Pledge Challenge!

Educators can view and download lesson plans (for free!) designed to give Alaskan youth an understanding of the high economic and environmental costs of power generation and the importance of conserving energy at home and school. Lesson plans are broken down into K-2, 3-5,...

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Posts / Energy Education / Renewable Energy / Wind

Alaska teams place second and fifth at National KidWind Challenge

Middle schoolers from Wasilla placed second and fifth at the National KidWind Challenge, held virtually June 7th through 10th. The Alaska teams from American Charter Academy, called The Georges (2nd) and AK Hurricane (5th), were coached by their science teacher Carol Drake,...

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Five Things to Know about the Solar in Prop 1

Residents of the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) have already started voting for the next mayor, some are voting for school board seat, and everyone is voting on 10 different bond measures. What you may not know is that Proposition 1 includes funding for solar panels on...

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