By YES! Program Manager Shelli-Kae Foster Through generous grant support by the McKnight Foundation, YES! continues to work in collaboration with Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy to increase climate literacy in Minnesota. This collective effort has thus far resulted in YES! students, coaches and staff benefiting from Climate Generation’s knowledge and know-how at 2 YES! Fall Summits, 3
Events
A First-Year YES! Team’s Reflections
By David Rice, Coach of Minnesota New Country School YES! Team This is the first year Minnesota New Country School (MNCS) has participated in the YES! program. MNCS has competed in the MTEEA Supermileage Vehicle competition for many years. We also have operated what we called the “Green Team” to tackle school recycling challenges. In general, we have been helping students develop projects that
Shining a Light on the ACGC YES! Team’s Partnership with CERTs
By YES! Coordinator Kory Klebe Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) has long been a wonderful partner of the YES! program. CERTs has helped to provide networking, education, and funding for several YES! projects. Tuesday, March 8th CERTs had an Energy Networking and Priority Setting event. At this event YES! Program Manager Shelli-Kae Foster and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) YES! team members
Native Plants and Monarch Butterflies
By YES! Coordinator Sarah Gainey On Friday, February 26, middle school students from North Junior High in St Cloud and Sartell Middle School immersed themselves in learning about the importance of native plants and got their hands a little dirty to help monarch butterflies! Both teams have potential native plant garden projects in the works at their schools and used this day to help move that
Hydroponics: Growing Ideas and Plants Without Soil
By Laurentian Staff Member Sam Horner Growing fruits and vegetables in northern Minnesota can be a tricky task to accomplish. Greenhouses help to begin and prolong the growing season, but there are still times when winter makes it too hard to grow any plants outside. The Northern Lights Community School YES! team wanted to see if there was a way to circumvent winter, and grow food all year long.
YES! Schools Learn to Green Their Cafeterias
On March 2nd, the YES! teams from Little Falls Community Middle School and Melrose Middle School attended a YES! Winter Workshop entitled ‘Greening Your Cafeteria’. The workshop was held at the new space for the Sprout Food Hub in Little Falls. The teams toured the facilities, learned about the Farm to School Network, and got to see the space that will be used as an indoor farmers market as well