YES! Awards 2013-2014 YES! teams all did great work this season! We recently concluded the YES! judging for the 2013-2014 season. YES! awards were presented within each cohort. Unless otherwise noted, Grand Prize winners received $1,000; Second Place winners received $750; Third Place winners received $500. See what each team accomplished by reading more on the Teams page. Grand
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School Lunch Waste Winter Workshop in New London-Spicer
Organics (food) waste accounts for 31% of the waste stream in Minnesota. Learn how your school can reduce school lunch waste, recycle milk cartons and save your school money! The workshop will feature experts from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Recycling Association of MN (RAM) and the Carton Council.
Project Funding Opportunity-CERTs Seed Grants
Calling all YES! teams! There is a wonderful opportunity to fund some of your projects through the CERTs Seed Grants. The grant RFP will open in late August, so now is a great time to become familiar with the application process and start thinking about your project ideas. These grants are designed to provide limited financial assistance for energy efficient and/or renewable
Deadline Extended for Clean Energy Seed Grants
Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) has extended the deadline for their Clean Energy Seed Grants. Interested entities are now encouraged to apply through August 6th, 2012. Regional CERTs teams are looking to fund community-based clean energy projects. The application process is simple and straightforward and they offer many tools and resources to help you plan your project and put forward the
Waste Reduction Grant Opportunity
According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Minnesota's public schools throw out 483,520 lbs of waste EVERY DAY. As you may guess, much of this waste is avoidable, much is recyclable and a lot is able to be composted. If your YES! team is among those tackling waste, check out this grant opportunity presented by the MPCA:
Creative inventions. . . ACGC’s education event
In the central Minnesota town of Cosmos last Friday, a 2nd grader invented an "air" plane that didn’t use gas--it ran on just air. Call it the “grasshopper,” the student said. . . “because grasshopper can fly for a long ways too.” Members of the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City YES! team invested long hours and priceless creativity in developing active-learning modules for elementary students in their