By YES! Coordinator Kristine Madsen Members of St. Cloud North Jr. High YES! Team gathered together 130 6th-8th grade students on May 6 to plant a 9,000 square-foot native rain garden on the school grounds. For the YES! students, the planning of the garden began months in advance of planting day. The YES! students chose the rain garden project because they wanted to beautify the school grounds as
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YES! Announces 2015-2016 Award Winners!
YES! Awards 2015-2016 YES! teams all did great work this season! We are proud to announce the winners of the YES! judging for the 2015-2016 season. YES! awards were presented within each cohort. Winning teams received awards in the amounts of: $500 for All-Star $250 for category awards See what each team accomplished by reading more on the Teams page. Southern Cohort All-Star Team
YES! Spring Awards Season
We are excited to once again present awards to the YES! teams this season. Thanks to generous support from our sponsors, we are able to offer awards in each of the 4 YES! regions. Teams are judged by a panel of local experts on their report about their work this season as well as their responses to questions from the panel of judges during a live judging session. $250 will be awarded for each
Earth Day Events with YES! Partners and YES! Teams
Helps us celebrate the 46th anniversary of Earth Day by joining YES! partners and teams in their various Earth Day celebrations. 1. Visit Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center on Saturday, April 23rd for the Earth Day Expo. There will be great activities and information surrounding the theme "Glup, Glup, What's up with the water in your cup?". Location: Prairie Woods ELC (12718 10th St NE,
YES! Welcomes Coordinator Kristine Madsen
YES! is welcoming a new member to our staff - Kristine Madsen is the newest YES! Coordinator. We are excited for Kristine to share her expertise and enthusiasm with the YES! Program! Here is a little more about Kristine: I grew up in Fergus Falls, MN. My dad was the Midcontinent Waterfowl Production Manager and because of this I was exposed to being one with nature since I was a small child. As
Climate Generation & YES! Team Up for Climate Literacy!
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