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Have you ever wondered how to know how much energy you are using and what it is costing you? What do you use in your life that uses the most and what is costing the most? How do you read that electric bill anyway? Join us to try out a new online tool and the basics for...
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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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On Tuesday, August 16th, ACEP’s online “Foundations of Microgrids” course will begin. You can register for the four-week asynchronous course – which has an emphasis on community-based projects and non grid-connected remote systems – by following...
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This was one of the first questions posed to students at this summer’s Clean Energy Career Explorations Academy with Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP). And whether they arrived with aspirations of becoming a doctor, nurse, engineer, artist, or...
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Four Alaskan teams competed at the National KidWind Competition last month in San Antonio, Texas. Students brought their wind turbines to test in three different wind tunnels, presented their process and design to a panel of judges, participated in an instant solar...
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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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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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…starting a business in a region larger than France, Spain, Germany and Italy combined, but with only .03% of their combined population. Now imagine that twenty percent of this very small population is off the road system, that broadband is limited, that energy costs are...
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REAP joins Alaska Sea Grant in celebrating the 2022 winners of the 25th Annual Tsunami Bowl hosted in Seward, Alaska earlier this month. The 25th Anniversary Theme – Climate Change: Ocean Science and Solutions. Team Locolithophores of Yadaa.at Kalé (Juneau-Douglas...
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Students are researching climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for the annual Tsunami Bowl competition, including renewable marine energy. What do Earth’s oceans, climate and energy have in common? Students will share their answers to this and many other...
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Like year’s past, participating classes will receive an energy efficiency presentation and conduct an electricity measuring lab. From there, teachers can dive as deep as they want depending on time and subject matter alignment. Numerous monthly and project-long...
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When the pandemic first started in April of 2020, we hosted our first virtual science fair and it presented us with a question many had been asking: how do we adapt an original concept to what’s currently happening in the world? Now, almost two years later, we’ve been...
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