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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Matthew Burns

Matthew Burns went to Westbrook Walnut Grove High School where he was active in YES! during his Freshman and Senior years (2014 & 2018). The main projects Matthew worked on included plastic bag recycling, making braided bracelets out of bags that couldn’t be recycled, collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House and his favorite project was taking old incandescent bulbs and turning

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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Mars Rigenhagen-Risch

Mars was involved with the YES! Program at Lac qui Parle Valley High School his sophomore, junior, and senior years. The main projects Mars worked on were composting food waste from the school's lunches, getting filtration systems on the water fountains at the school, and installing solar-powered lights on the bike trail in Appleton. Mars notes, "I was exposed to a lot of important life skills

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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Kai Storvick

Kai was part of the YES! team at Mankato West his sophomore, junior and senior years (2014-2017). During his time as a member of the Mankato West YES! team, Kai worked on many projects including water bottle fillers that they added to their school's water fountains, performing an audit of their school's electrical consumption and waste management, replacing lightbulbs in their high school building

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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Driel Mortenson

Driel was a member of the New London Spicer YES! team during both middle school and high school. While a member of the YES! team, Driel worked on many projects, including raising money to install water-bottle refill stations in the school to cut down on plastic waste. Another big project was holding a climate change convening during an Earth Day event at Prairie Woods ELC in order to create

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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Brooke Tschida

Brooke was involved in the YES! program for 5 years while in 8th-12th grade at Royalton. Throughout the years she participated in YES!, Brooke worked on a variety of projects including constructing and racing an electric car at the Supermileage Competition, racing a solar-powered boat, constructing a solar-powered trailer to haul their electric car and solar powered boat to events, helping to

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YES! Alumni Spotlight: Jasmine Nieto

Jasmine joined the YES! Team at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) in 2009 and participated as a student until 2014 and then coached the ACGC YES! Team for the 2014-2015 school year. During her 6 years in YES!, Jasmine worked on a multitude of projects ranging from education to reducing waste, from building a garden to improving recycling. She also worked to raise funds for all of these

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