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Aaron has achieved his own dreams through hard work, perseverance, and by following principles learned while growing up on a family farm in rural Minnesota. Since childhood, he’s had a passion for adventure, the natural world, and education. Those passions drove his quest to change the way that education was being delivered to students around the world. He helped pioneer a new form of education called adventure learning that uses emerging technologies to bring real-world stories and issues from remote regions of the Earth into the classroom as students follow him and his teams of explorers through the Arctic and to every continent. Adventure learning puts students in direct contact with people living in those regions, scientists studying those regions, and their peers in classrooms around the world.

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At the same time Aaron was achieving his dream of making a difference in the field of education, he was meeting new personal challenges skiing and dogsledding throughout the circumpolar Arctic, learning to survive on the land in unforgiving climates and landscapes, and making lifelong friends with people from diverse cultures around the globe.

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These extreme adventures tied to a revolutionary new approach to learning have endowed Aaron not only with exciting stories and stunning photos and videos to share, but also with key life lessons about what it takes to achieve one’s dreams, to drive change on both small and large scales, and to persevere even in the face of daunting odds. He now gives dozens of talks a year focused on educating others and inspiring them to pursue their own dreams even as they inspire others to do the same.

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Bio in Brief

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Named a top modern-day explorer by Canadian Geographic, a top innovator in online, geography and science learning in education by The Science Coalition, Dr. Aaron is an online learning, design, and adventure-learning pioneer. He has educated millions online as he skied, trekked, and dogsledded the remotest regions of the world while delivering unique online learning experiences to students worldwide. Aaron is a laureate of the prestigious Tech Awards that honors innovators applying technology to benefit humanity, a fellow for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, as well as the International Explorers Club. Aaron’s work and adventure learning projects have been featured on CNN International, the Weather Channel, CBC, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and more.

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