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The Iditarod Education Department is pleased to announce that Kate Newmyer is our 2024 Iditarod Teacher on the TrailTM. Kate accepted this job after a through and rigorous application and selection process. Based on her written application, she was selected as one of 3 finalists that were invited to Alaska prior to this year’s race …
Your IditaRead “mushers” may be crossing the finish line soon. Here are the PDFs and jpeg for a black and white or a color finisher’s certificate for you to present to your finishers. Additionally, we want to thank the over 1,200 teachers that signed up for the digital IditaRead program. The suggestion box is live …
In cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services, and for the purpose of protecting our children and communities, the Iditarod Education Department wants to share these resources for use in your schools. There are mazes, coloring pages, and flyers. Click on each thumbnail to access the documents.
Dear Friends, The 2023 Iditarod is over. What fun we had following the dogs and mushers across Alaska! Mushers described tough conditions: Too warm of temperatures around Nikolai for the dogs who are used to running in cold No snow through the Buffalo Tunnels, running sleds over mud and ice chunks Wipe outs, turned over …
I took nearly 4,000 photos over the past few weeks. Most of them were on a physical camera and it will take time to sort through them all. I rarely used my phone to photograph the big moments, but I pulled it out once in a while to capture the candid moments; those times where …
Iditarod 2023 is coming to a close and it’s ending just as it should, all the pieces coming together, all the loose ends tied up, all the closure necessary to move forward and back to real life. Last night the race concluded with an epic finish. Jason Mackey came up off the ice to receive …
“Camaraderie is built through shared agony and laughter. “ Today, just after noon, the journeys of Gerhardt Thiart and Bridgett Watkins came to an end – a successful finish in the 51st Iditarod. Their trip to the burled arch in Nome began more than a year ago when they both started the 2022 Iditarod ready …
Dear Friends, What exactly happens in Nome when the teams finish the Iditarod? First, the mushers and teams run along the Bering Sea coast and then up a hill onto Front Street through the city of Nome. A siren goes off when a musher is approaching so that anyone snuggled into a warm bed can …
How do you get the latest news and information? I usually turn to social media and free news sources. I subscribe to a daily email that gives me the top stories and rarely dig deeper. Prior to my departure for Iditarod I did several interviews with local tv news outlets, and was shocked by how …
Dear Friends, You have seen that the top three finishers in the race (including all their amazing sled dogs) are Alaska Native. What does that mean? Here is a definition: American Indian or Alaska Native means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, including Central America, and …