Mille Porsild 

 (Denmark) - Program Director, Team Member

Mille is an educator, arctic explorer, web developer, writer and K-12 lecturer. She has logged thousands of miles of travel by dog sled in the Arctic regions; becoming a voice for Arctic education. As lead developer of collaborative online education programs she is responsible for authoring and managing the framework, design and curricula of online classroom environments.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Porsild has arctic exploration in her genes. Her great grandfather, Morten Porsild, a contemporary of Robert Peary and friend of Knud Rasmussen, was the founder of the first arctic research station in the world which he placed on Disko Island in Greenland. His sons Erling and Thorbjorn Porsild later moved to Canada where they traveled throughout the Northwest and Yukon Territories by dog teams, managing, amongst others, the renowned Reindeer Expedition and building the Reindeer Station in the Mackenzie River Delta.

Porsild first carried on the tradition in 1992 when she joined Polar Explorer, Will Steger, at his Homestead in northern Minnesota to participate in the development of the International Arctic Project 1992-1995 (IAP). Featured in National Geographic in January 1996, it was a first-of-its-kind educational expedition program employing exploration as a catalyst for learning.

Upon the successful completion of IAP in 1996, Porsild co-founded NOMADS Adventure & Education, Inc., extending her commitment to combine adventure with classroom education. Through continuing initiatives she strives to foster cultural understanding and environmental responsibility while developing truly collaborative tools for learning in holistic, online classrooms.

A frequent speaker at schools around the world, Porsild has shared her enthusiasm with more than 70,000 students of all ages throughout the United States alone. In person or via the Internet she is a dynamic advocate of the use of education to instill proactive behavior and inspire adventurous spirits.

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