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2021-22 YES! Teams

Crosslake Community School – New Team!
  • Water testing
Discovery Woods Montessori
  • Water testing on local lakes
  • Storm-drain stenciling
  • Shoreline clean-up
  • Exploring Solar for Schools
Lac qui Parle Valley High School
  • Learned about aquatic invasive species and water quality while canoeing the Lake Florida Sloughs
  • Collected prairie seeds in Benson with US Fish and Wildlife expert to be used in other restoration projects
MACCRAY High School – New Team!
  • Planning to install a rain garden in the community park by their school to prevent flooding
  • Maintaining water quality and healthy shoreline habitat in a new retention pond being built at school
Mankato West High School
  • Protecting water quality in the Minnesota River by developing a spill-response kit for staff to implement when hazardous materials have spilled on school property
  • Organizing litter cleanup events on school property and surrounding areas, sorting the waste to reclaim recyclable materials
  • Planning an Environmental Awareness Week for their school
  • Investigating how to add a solar array at school
  • Produced a YES! team newsletter to promote events and resources to students and Instagram followers
Minnewaska Schools
  • Trash-to-Art
  • Interested in doing a water quality or climate change related project
New London-Spicer Middle School
  • Storm-drain stenciling
  • YES! Week at school with education and recycling events (items being recycled include tennis shoes, clothing, and highlighters)
New London-Spicer High School
  • Bike “fix it” station at a popular trailhead
  • Improving “nature areas” at elementary and high school
  • Exploring adding more native prairie plants or low-maintenance grass to school grounds
  • Installing low-flow fixtures and aerators on school water faucets
Northern Lights Community School
  • Planning to teach elementary students about environmental topics through hands-on activities
  • Selecting and planting native trees in woods on school property for Arbor Day
  • Organizing Spring Cleanup Day for schoolyard and surrounding area
  • Collecting litter along the Ice Lake shoreline
  • Participating in Trout in the Classroom
Parkers Prairie High School
  • Water quality testing on Lake Miltona and other local lakes
  • Lakeshore cleanup
  • School lunch composting
Royalton High School
  • Building a solar-powered boat to compete in the Solar Boat Regatta
  • Holiday Party activity- making fleece tied blankets for community-service project
  • Arbor Day education project and tree planting
  • Prairie Restoration Project next to School Forest
  • Water Quality Testing Project with drinking fountains  
  • Water Quality Improvement Project to manage run-off from the tennis courts 
Sleepy Eye (Public and St. Mary’s) High Schools
  • Planted prairie seeds to expand pollinator gardens at community golf course
  • Handed out educational flyers about energy at community’s Holiday Lights in Motion event
  • Facilitated the separation of organic waste in their cafeteria line so it can be picked up by a farmer who feeds it to his pigs
  • Planning a winter event, Energy Awareness Week
  • Planning a summer event to provide environmental education in their community
  • Collecting used markers/pens/mechanical pencils/etc. for the BIC/Terra Cycle program
  • Participating in River Watch and Adopt a Storm Drain programs
Springfield High School
  • Collected used holiday lights for recycling
  • Growing vegetables in school greenhouse for cafeteria salad bar
  • Installing pet-waste cleanup stations in two parks in spring 2022
Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School
  • Collected roadside trash and created a “Ditch of Shame” educational display
  • Making jar lights for lawns by reusing old jars from peanut butter, mayonnaise, pickles, etc. They are being sold for $5 a jar.
  • Hosting a used shoe drive
Yellow Medicine East High School
  • Presented to the local Lion’s Club to seek project support
  • Distributed bins to elementary classrooms and art rooms for marker recycling project
  • Planning a shoreline cleanup along the Minnesota River
  • Getting signs for the recycling bins they bought for sporting events
  • Working to get garbage bins in the parking lot to prevent littering
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