By Jolene Carlson (YES! Coach) Compass Learning Center's YES! team received funding from the McKnight Foundation to implement their Agriscaping curriculum. Agriscaping is using food to create edible and functional landscapes. Students designed a MN Edible Plant PowerPoint Presentation identifying the functions and classification of plants. They then designed three Agriscapes that were
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YES! Announces McKnight Foundation Project Funding Winners
On October 26th, 2018 the Youth Eco Solutions (YES!) Program announced the 2018-19 winners of the McKnight Foundation Project Seed Funding. Funding was awarded to teams whose projects involve creating solutions to today's environmental challenges through hands on projects that impact their school and/or community. Through a competitive process, 6 teams received funding to complete their
Discovery Woods LED Lighting
Our school used our McKnight Foundation grant money to install LED lights in our library. Our building is almost eighty years old and has seen some updates but we have a ways to go yet. The library lighting was irreplaceable and not functioning. To begin, the students looked at the school’s electricity bills to find out how much our school pays per KWh and then we estimated how much the current
West Central Summer Water Project
On June 30th, 2018, a few YES! students spent part of their summer morning searching the Middle Fork of the Crow River for aquatic invasive species. YES! students from Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) helped build up the new AquaHunter App. This smartphone and computer application was created by the task force for the general public. It allows anyone to be able to take a photo of aquatic
You Forked Up Scarlets
Submitted Post: Mankato West YES! Team The cafeteria has been using plastic utensils since late this fall. While this is not ideal, it is currently necessary to provide cutlery for the students during lunch. The school had previously been using reusable metal silverware but after a large quantity of them went missing, there no longer are enough metal forks and spoons to use for lunch. The
New Prague YES! Feeding Students Locally
Submitted by New Prague YES! Team Compass Learning Center students installed 5 indoor window extenders to facilitate indoor plants and seed starting for our outdoor gardens. The McKnight Grant also supported an additional 2 outdoor garden beds, adding to our other 3 outdoor garden beds. They will be utilized May-October for vegetable planting. The vegetables will be used to teach students
