"The future will not be a multiple choice question. It is a future design challenge." That is on the email signature of the coach for the Glencoe-Silver Lake YES! team and it was put into practice at the recent YES! Winter Workshop entitled "Exploring the Automotive Industry and Automotive Design Practices in Glencoe". The 15 students from the Glencoe-Silver Lake YES! team who attended
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Cold Gold: Growing During MN Winters
By YES! Coordinator Jonathan Morales Anyone who thinks the only things you can harvest during Minnesota winters are icicles should have been at the YES! Winter Workshop that took place on March 4th at the College of St. Benedict. There, winter greenhouses were celebrated and the students who attended explored ways for more schools to have their own local foods during Minnesota winters. The day
How Energy Efficient is Duluth?
Written by YES!/GreenCorps Member Sam Horner Duluth, Minnesota has many reasons to be as energy efficient as possible, but now they have five million more reasons. Georgetown University is holding an energy contest where one city in the United States will win five million dollars to help support their city’s energy infrastructure. Given the amount of good that this amount of money could do for
Greenhouses, Growing, and Recycling, Oh My!
Written by YES!/GreenCorps Member Sam Horner The YES! team from Mountain Iron-Buhl had a Winter Workshop on February 13th that was packed full of greenhouse management and recycling resources. Each stop along the trip gave the students useful knowledge that will help them in accomplishing their YES! team projects. The first stop of the day was at Fat Chicken Farm where Janna Goerdt, one of the
Students Grow their Businesses and Composting Knowledge in the Mankato area
By YES! Coordinator Katelyn Larsen Students from the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) and Sleepy Eye YES! teams convened at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato on March 4 to learn about business start-ups and entrepreneurship in the southern region of Minnesota. Our first speaker was Ed Fahrforth, Sales Manager at LJP Waste & Recycle. When Ed started Minnesota’s first recycling company in 1989,
Alexandria Students Gather to Learn and Plan for Native Pollinator Habitat
By YES! Coordinator Winston Pennington-Flax Late last fall, after a news story surfaced that monarch butterflies may be absent from Minnesota's landscape in as few as ten years, the students of the Alexandria Area High School YES! team saw a major problem in our ecosystem as well as an opportunity to create positive change in their school and community. Fast forward to late winter, and the