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Seniors compete in Native Youth Olympics (Photo: Ana McMenamin) Each year, S.N.A.P. Meet returns to take over the Newhalen School for a week in April, bringing together students from all over the Lake and Peninsula School District. Newhalen School Principal, Ed Lester, has...
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More than 2,000 students from 90 fourth through twelfth grade classrooms around the state participated in the 2024 Power Pledge Challenge, an initiative aimed at helping youth better understand energy use. Students competed for regional and statewide prizes while learning...
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This summer marked an exciting milestone for REAP as we took the next step in combining our energy education and other community engagement efforts in Southeast Alaska. In Sitka, we combined our popular summer camp programming and work with local partners to engage community...
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Momentum has been building nationwide for cultivating energy literacy in K-12 classrooms. To continue that growth, 34 educators from 21 states gathered in June on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yedd’ha campus to learn about clean energy and lessons, methods, and...
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Inside Newhalen School, past puddles of melting snow outside, the main hallway was lined with duffels, sleeping bags, snow boots, and parkas. The gear was grouped under handwritten signs: “Tanalian, Perryville, Chignik Lagoon, Chignik Lake, Igiugig, Meshik, Nondalton,...
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Climatic anomalies notwithstanding, Southeast Alaska is typically a pretty soggy place year-round. Since time immemorial, the Residents of Sheet’ka (Sitka) have embraced the rain, while thriving on the abundance the rivers, forest and ocean surrounding them provides....
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Winners have been selected for the eleventh annual Power Pledge Challenge! Lori Holcomb’s 5th grade class at Talkeetna Elementary is this year’s statewide winner of the Power Pledge Challenge (PPC)! More than 2,200 third through twelfth grade students from 29...
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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 and solar energy. Throughout the Spring semester, students in grades 4-12 will build model wind turbines and solar devices with the support of...
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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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