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Conferences and Workshops
- 03/05/2010
- Iditarod Field Trip: Happy Trails Kennel
By Sally Simon, Finalist for Target® Iditarod 2011 Teacher on the Trail™, New York
Filed under Conferences and Workshops, News and Information, People, Places, or Dogs, Target Teacher on the Trail
When visiting Happy Trails Kennel most people get excited about meeting Martin Buser. He is, after all, an Iditarod icon.
They want to hear him talk…
- 02/11/2010
- Can’t go to Alaska? Join us Via Internet!
The Iditarod Winter Teacher’s Conference will be held March 2 – 5 in Anchorage, Alaska. This year, we’ll be providing our teachers and classrooms around the world ways to ‘join us’ for parts of our teacher conference events. We’ll have…
Filed under 2010 Race Season, Conferences and Workshops, News and Information, Teacher Tips and Tools, Technology Integration, Technology-Information Highway
- 01/28/2010
- 2010 Iditarod Winter Conference for Teachers
Don’t miss the 2010 Winter Conference for Teachers: March 2 – 5 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Filed under 2010 Race Season, Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
Attend the Iditarod Start and Restart: March 6 – 7. If you are going to Alaska for the start of the race, don’t miss these…
- 10/03/2009
- Join Us in Alaska for a Teacher’s Workshop
Two Iditarod teacher workshops are held in Alaska each year. One is held the week before the start of the race and the other is held the last week in June during the same time as the yearly Volunteer Picnic…
Filed under Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
- 05/23/2009
- Join us at Summer Camp: June 20 – 28, 2010
Click and play! Want more information? Click here! Music by Cathy Walters
Why attend Summer Camp? Click ‘play’. To return to this website, use the back arrow key! Music by Hobo Jim and used with his permission.
Filed under Alaska Bound? Read This!, Conferences and Workshops
- 04/08/2009
- Summer Camp: June 2009
Join us in Alaska! Attend the 2009 Iditarod ‘Summer Camp’ for Educators.
Filed under Conferences and Workshops
The workshop experience will be held June 21 – 29 in Wasilla, Alaska. The first three days of the conference will be held at the Dream a Dream…
- 12/28/2008
- Will You be in Alaska? Don’t Miss This!
Are you going to be in Alaska for the start of the race? Don’t miss these special events open to the public:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Fieldtrip: Iditarod Headquarters, lunch, and Martin Buser’s Kennel7:30 Meet in the Millennium Hotel…
Filed under Alaska Bound? Read This!, Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
- 12/17/2008
- 2009 Winter Conference and Summer Camp for Teachers
The Iditarod Education Department holds two conferences in Alaska each year. The Winter Conference is held the week prior to the start of the race, and the Summer Conference is held the week before the Volunteer Picnic each June.
Filed under Alaska Bound? Read This!, Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
Winter…
- 10/16/2008
- The Iditarod Classroom Adventure!
Energize your classroom by connecting your curriculum to Iditarod.
Filed under Art, Music, FACS, Indust Arts, Conferences and Workshops, News and Information, Teacher Tips and Tools
November is an exciting month for classrooms around the world as they as they begin to check www.iditarod.com to see which mushers have signed up to run the 2008 Iditarod. To…
- 07/07/2008
- 2008 Summer Camp for Teachers
Teachers Attend Iditarod Summer Camp: June 2007
by Education Department
Filed under Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
07/01/2008
Camp isn’t just for kids! It is for teachers, too!
Each summer, thousands of youngsters head off to summer camp. The camp experience isn’t just for kids, though, not…
- 03/20/2008
- Summer Camp for Teachers: Review of the 2007 Camp
2007 Iditarod Teacher Workshop, Wasilla, Alaska Conference
Filed under Conferences and Workshops, News and Information
A Review By Bonnie Edwards
This adventure came to be by my personal interest in raising and training “working dogs”. I had raised three Seeing Eye dogs for Southeastern Guide Dogs, in Palmetto,…
- 01/29/2008
- 2009 Educator Conferences
The Iditarod Education Department holds two conferences in Alaska each year.
Filed under Conferences and Workshops