Winter Games

Celebrating the 2025 Winter Games: Week 4 Highlights & Final Results!
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Celebrating the 2025 Winter Games: Week 4 Highlights & Final Results!

The final week of the WinterKids Winter Games brought plenty of excitement, creativity, and a whole lot of learning! With a focus on clouds, students explored the sky while continuing to build teamwork, school spirit, and outdoor winter enthusiasm.

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Stories from Week 3 of the WinterKids Winter Games
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Stories from Week 3 of the WinterKids Winter Games

Week 3 of the WinterKids Winter Games was filled with outdoor challenges focusing on WIND. Each day, students headed outdoors to make weather observations.

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Embracing Winter: A Look into the 2025 Winter Games Week 2 
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Embracing Winter: A Look into the 2025 Winter Games Week 2 

Week 2 of the WinterKids Winter Games focused on the theme of precipitation. In spite of some of the lowest temps of the season, students bundled up and headed outdoors to gather data for their weather charts. This week’s activities focused on taking accurate measurements – be it temperatures, snowfall amounts, or the size of a snow angel!

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2025 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Wrap Up 
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2025 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Wrap Up 

This year’s program is buzzing with energy as schools across Maine participate in winter-themed activities designed to promote outdoor activity and community spirit. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share stories and images from these schools as they embrace outdoor education and learn how individual and collective actions impact our climate.

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WinterKids Launches 2024 Community Vote for Outdoor Fund, Announces $25,000 in Statewide Grants 
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WinterKids Launches 2024 Community Vote for Outdoor Fund, Announces $25,000 in Statewide Grants 

WinterKids is excited to announce the opening of the WinterKids Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund 2024 application window. This marks the third year of the Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund, continuing WinterKids’ efforts to expand access to outdoor activities among children throughout Maine.

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Schools, parks & rec programs, and nonprofits across Maine can apply now for a portion of $25,000 in grants through the WinterKids Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund
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Schools, parks & rec programs, and nonprofits across Maine can apply now for a portion of $25,000 in grants through the WinterKids Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund

WinterKids is excited to announce the opening of the WinterKids Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund 2024 application window. This marks the third year of the Downhill 24 Outdoor Fund, continuing WinterKids’ efforts to expand access to outdoor activities among children throughout Maine.

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Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Winning Schools announced in the 7th Annual WinterKids Winter Games
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Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Winning Schools announced in the 7th Annual WinterKids Winter Games

The 7th annual WinterKids Winter Games wrapped up this February with 16 schools competing statewide to win a total of $17,750 for their schools! The Winter Games is a 4-week series of challenges in outdoor physical activity, nutrition, family engagement, and winter carnival. All Competitive Track schools received a cash prize based on how they finished.

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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Photos, Results, and More!
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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Photos, Results, and More!

Between January 8-February 2, 2024, over 10,000+ students, teachers, and families participated in the 7th Annual WinterKids Winter Games by completing four weeks of WinterKids outdoor learning challenges!

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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 3 Wrap Up (Family Engagement Week)
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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 3 Wrap Up (Family Engagement Week)

Students in both our Competitive Track and our non-competitive Play-Along Track did an incredible job for Week 3, participating in the following daily challenges, as guided by this year’s PLAYBook, “The Little Things” edition.

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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 2 Wrap Up (Nutrition Week)
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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 2 Wrap Up (Nutrition Week)

Week 2 of the WinterKids Winter Games carried on the excitement, with Maine students celebrating nutrition as the topic of the week’s competition. Most schools had snow to aid their fun as they learned and moved outdoors, competing for the $5,000 cash prize.

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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Wrap Up (OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WEEK)
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2024 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Wrap Up (OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WEEK)

The 7th Annual WinterKids Winter Games are in full swing, with schools embracing the outdoors and learning the importance of “The Little Things” in this four-week competition.

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WinterKids Kicks off Seventh Annual WinterKids Winter Games in Maine Elementary Schools Statewide
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WinterKids Kicks off Seventh Annual WinterKids Winter Games in Maine Elementary Schools Statewide

The 7th annual WinterKids Winter Games will kick off this month with 16 schools (comprised of 3300+ students and 380+ teachers) across Maine.

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Meet the 2024 WinterKids Winter Games Competitive Track Schools!
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Meet the 2024 WinterKids Winter Games Competitive Track Schools!

Sixteen public elementary schools have been selected to participate in the 2024 WinterKids Winter Games Competitive Track! These schools will compete in four weeks of fun, active outdoor learning challenges to earn cash and prizes for their schools from January 8 – February 2, 2024.

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WinterKids Announces Opening of Winter Games Application Window for Maine Schools
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WinterKids Announces Opening of Winter Games Application Window for Maine Schools

WinterKids is excited to announce the opening of the application window for Maine Schools to compete for cash & prizes in the 4-week competition taking place from January 8-February 2, 2024.

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WinterKids Announces Gold, Silver and Bronze Prize Winners in the 6th Annual WinterKids Winter Games!
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WinterKids Announces Gold, Silver and Bronze Prize Winners in the 6th Annual WinterKids Winter Games!

The 6th annual WinterKids Winter Games wrapped up last week, with 16 schools competing statewide to win cash prizes for their schools!

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2023 WinterKids Winter Games COMPETITIVE TRACK RESULTS
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2023 WinterKids Winter Games COMPETITIVE TRACK RESULTS

The 6th Annual WinterKids Winter Games wrapped up on Friday, February 3rd, and Things got Seriously Wild! Our 16 Competitive Track schools across Maine finished WinterKids Winter Games with a…

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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 4 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner
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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 4 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner

Week 4 of the 2023 WinterKids Winter Games was focused on a wild winter carnival, and check out how much fun these

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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 3 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner
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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 3 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner

Week 3 of the 2023 WinterKids Winter Games was focused on Family Engagement, bringing classrooms and families together outside! Week 3 of the 2023 WinterKids Winter Games had our

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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 2 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner
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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 2 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner

Week 2 of the 2023 WinterKids Winter Games was focused on NUTRITION, and our

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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner
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2023 WinterKids Winter Games Week 1 Recap + Moment of the Week Winner

Week 1 of the 2023 WinterKids Winter Games was focused on Outdoor Physical Activity, and boy, did our

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WinterKids Announces Maine Schools Competing in the Sixth Annual WinterKids Winter Games Presented by Hannaford Snack Pals
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WinterKids Announces Maine Schools Competing in the Sixth Annual WinterKids Winter Games Presented by Hannaford Snack Pals

The 6th annual WinterKids Winter Games begins next week with sixteen schools competing statewide to win a total of $30,000 for their schools!

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Applications open for the 6th Annual WinterKids Winter Games!
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Applications open for the 6th Annual WinterKids Winter Games!

Once again, the WinterKids Winter Games is bringing a little healthy competition to elementary schools across Maine, and it’s going to be “wild.”

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5th Annual WinterKids Winter Games Photos, Results, and More!
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5th Annual WinterKids Winter Games Photos, Results, and More!

Between January 17-February 11, 2022, over 12,000 students, teachers, and families participated in 4 weeks of “Olympic Games” themed WinterKids outdoor learning challenges!

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