Braving frigid temperatures, students from the Youth Eco Solutions team at Northern Lights Community School donned snowshoes to learn firsthand about their school's woodland during the YES! Forestry Workshop on March 10. The workshop was organized by YES! regional coordinator Deb Groebner; instruction was provided by Rachael Olesiak, Research Plot Coordinator at the University of Minnesota's
Southwest Teams Participate in Green Jobs Workshop
YES! students from Lac qui Parle Valley, MACCRAY, and Yellow Medicine East high schools are better prepared to explore careers that benefit the environment after participating in a two-part Green Jobs Workshop in February and March 2022. First, the teams learned about key workforce skills during a pre-workshop session led by Krista Nelson and Kelly Rickert, both Work & Learn Coordinators