We work to improve how Alaskan students understand and use renewable energy through hands-on lessons and teacher trainings statewide.
Clean Energy Olympics Competition
Save the Date! The 2027 in-person competition will be in Anchorage on April 3rd and Juneau on April 10th. Teams can present virtually until April 7th. Interested in coaching a team? Sign up below!
The Clean Energy Olympics is a renewable energy engineering design competition open to 4th-12th graders. Throughout the Spring semester, student teams design and build a model wind turbine or solar home at school, club, or home. Teams then test their design’s performance and present their designs to a panel of judges.
Scores are based on design performance, documentation of design process, team presentation, and subject matter knowledge. Competition elements and rules are based on the KidWind Challenge.
Teams can showcase their project at an in-person (in Anchorage or Juneau) or virtual competition event. Top teams from each grade division will be invited to the World KidWind Challenge at Kansas State University May 16-19, 2027.
Read about the 2026 results here.
Training Workshops
Interested in coaching a team to Clean Energy Olympics glory? Take a free training workshop with REAP to get all the hands-on experience and materials needed to incorporate this competition into your classroom/club. Continuing education hours are available for interested teachers.
2027 CEO trainings will occur in-person in Anchorage and Juneau on January 23 (9am-3pm, lunch included) and at the 2027 ASTE Conference in Anchorage on February 13 or 14. If you would like to coach but cannot attend any of the workshops in-person please contact Tyler Katzmar (tkatzmar@realaska.org) to coordinate kit shipping and access to training recordings.
Sign up to coach teams or attend a free training workshop below!
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About Wind for Schools
Wind for Schools was a program active from 2005-2020 funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America program and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Alaska is one of eleven states which participated in the Wind for Schools program. Now, REAP educators collaborate with other educational organizations in the US through REpowering Schools, a national non profit which grew out of the Wind for Schools program.
REAP provides classroom visits to model wind and solar lessons and trainings to help teachers implement activities. REAP’s focus is schools around the state where community-scale wind or solar projects have been installed and students can easily visit the installation.
There are also currently seven small turbines connected to the electric grid in the state that were installed through the Wind for Schools program between 2009 and 2011. Those installations serve as on-site demonstration projects that allow students to collect and analyze the performance data of the turbines.
Current turbines
There are seven small wind turbines in Alaska that were installed through the Wind for Schools program between 2009 and 2011. We are working on reconnecting the turbines to a network so that their electricity output can be seen on OpenEI.
Classroom visits & teacher trainings
We provide classroom visits and teacher trainings statewide.
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