Winners have been selected for the tenth annual Power Pledge Challenge!
State Winner
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 20 schools in eight regions around the state participated in the tenth annual PPC, an initiative from AK EnergySmart aimed at helping youth better understand energy use.
Participating classrooms received in-person or virtual outreach from REAP educators and/or utility partners, using a lesson from AK EnergySmart, as well as electricity monitors upon request. This semester-long, project-based PPC increased students’ energy literacy while completing challenges that benefit their families, classrooms, and schools.
Curtis is getting $2,000 worth of energy education kits and supplies from NEED.org, as well as a pizza party and tour of a solar farm. Each of the regional winners are getting a pizza party and tour of a local power plant as well. Prizes are provided with funding from the 14 partners.
Winning Classes
This year’s winning classes are:
- Statewide: Lisa Curtis, Talkeetna Elementary
- Anchorage/Upper Kenai: Leola Rutherford, Girdwood K-8
- Mat-Su/Eagle River: Lori Holcomb, Talkeetna Elementary
- Gateway: Bonnie Dompierre, Tok School
- Interior: Eamon O’Regan, Pearl Creek Elementary
- Southeast: Amber Brewer, Auke Bay Elementary
- Bering Strait: Kara Sponsler, Koyuk Malemiut School
- Cordova: Lance Westing, Cordova Jr/Sr High School
The Power Pledge Challenge began in 2013, offering energy presentations to students in the Anchorage area. The now statewide initiative is held through support of Alaska Electric Light & Power, Alaska Energy Authority, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Alaska Power & Telephone, Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, Chugach Electric Association, City of Seward, Cordova Electric Association, Golden Valley Electric Association, Inside Passage Electric Cooperative, Kotzebue Electric Association, Nome Joint Utility Systems, Nushagak Cooperative, Matanuska Electric Association, and Renewable Energy Alaska Project.
Thank you to the sponsors!
