During each middle school academy held throughout the school year at ANSEP, REAP leads a half-day activity where students explore the importance of heating efficiency and insulation types. In 2016, 2017 and 2019, we also led a five-day ANSEP career exploration camp around clean energy. During the pandemic, REAP partnered with ANSEP to provide a distance renewable energy challenge.

Arctic and Earth STEM Integrating GLOBE & NASA (SIGNs) is a program based at the UAF International Arctic Research Center, which connects youth and adults to climate change and Earth science learning. REAP and the Arctic & Earth SIGNs team partnered to teach a Climate & Energy continuing education class for educators. Learn more here.

REAP partners with utilities and organizations across to the state to visit physical science classrooms and present about energy efficiency and conservation, including a hands-on activity to calculate electricity use. The students then go online and pledge to do three things to reduce their energy use to enter to win a regional prize for their class. Learn more here.

Our STEM educators work with teachers in the TCLL program at Harborview Elementary in Juneau to modify and adapt STEM curricula for Tlingit learners.

 Our STEM educators work with key partners in Tribal organizations, Juneau Schools and the University of Alaska Southeast to develop and deliver culturally relevant STEM curricula for high school students enrolled in the new Southeast Alaska Indigenous Studies program.

At one of the CIHA communities, our staff presented a series of energy lessons to youth residents introducing them to energy efficiency, solar energy, and wind energy.

Our organization has presented energy lessons to Girl Scout troops, the Girl Scouts Women of Science & Technology days and at the Girl Scouts Encampment. Participants earn patches, such as the “Conservation in Alaska” badge.

We have worked with the ASD to develop the sixth grade education kit that teachers have access to during every second semester. The kit focuses on energy and includes lessons adopted from AKEnergySmart, Wind for Schools, and the National Energy Education Development (NEED) project. Today, we continue to provide follow-up trainings on the kit and other energy topics at ASD in-services.