Congratulations to the West Central YES! teams for yet another amazing year of hardworking students completing complex projects. This year’s West Central Regional Judging took place at Dahmes Stainless Inc. in New London, MN where 4 judges from the community came together to assess eight of the eleven West Central YES! teams' accomplishments. Results: 1st Place Award Recipient – Sartell YES!
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Sartell YES! Projects
Submitted Blog by Kenzie A. The Sartell Middle School 7th grade enriched class is apart of YES!. The goal of YES! this year is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. So far the YES! team has made lessons on waste reduction, recycling, composting, reducing food waste, how much we waste, and reusing. These lessons are shown throughout the middle school in our SA/homeroom classes. We have also put
YES! Alumni Spotlight: Stephanie Pederson
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie Pederson, an alumna of the YES! team at Eden Valley-Watkins High School. She now works in Energy Services at Dakota Electric Association. While a member of the YES! team, she worked on projects that included grant writing, a school energy audit, increasing recycling, providing education to elementary students on topics related to
Youth Energy Summit (YES!) named as a 2017 MN Ethical Leadership Award Recipient
Synergy & Leadership Exchange has named Youth Energy Summit (YES!) as a 2017 Minnesota Ethical Leadership Award recipient. Many outstanding applications were considered, but only three were selected for recognition. According to the award letter, the blue-ribbon panel was impressed with the character and ethical leadership development exhibited by the YES! students. One of the judges
Solar Boating at Glencoe-Silver Lake
The Glencoe-Silver Lake YES! Team has been working on a project that reduces the dependence on fossil fuels and is a zero-emission vehicle to boot. Our team is in the final assembly of building a one person solar boat. The team will be competing at the MRES Solar Boat Regatta May 20th at Lake Riley. The objective of our project was to create and demonstrate a non-polluting way to
Winter Workshop 2017
Submitted by: Jim DeVries, Northeast YES! Coordinator On March 31st teams from Virginia and Carlton participated in a waste reduction winter workshop. The day started out at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC) where Chelly Thompson, the Associate Director of operations, gave us a wonderful tour. Over the past ten years the DECC has made a commitment to reduce their impacts on