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The Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment regularly partners with Kusilvak Career Academy to promote clean energy career pathways to students from the Lower Yukon School District. Our recent energy efficiency day at KCA not only taught students about how to...
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Two teams from Gambell participated in the 2023 Clean Energy Olympics, the statewide wind turbine design competition hosted by REAP. Gambell’s middle school team, Qughsatkut Wind Blazers, was named after the school’s mascot: a legendary king polar bear of Sivuqaq Island....
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The 2023 Clean Energy Olympics was once again a hybrid event. Five teams competed in-person on April 1st at Palmer High School and another eight teams presented their projects virtually in the first week of April. Teams representing Anchorage, Wasilla, Galena, and Gambell...
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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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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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The Clean Energy Olympics (CEO) is a design competition that engages students in the engineering process through the lens of wind energy. Throughout the Spring semester, students in grades 4-12 will build model wind turbines with the help of their teacher/coach. In April, the...
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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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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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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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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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