It was another great year for YES! This year, 294 students from 22 different schools participated in the Youth Energy Summit (YES!) program. These students worked with 281 community members and 136 local businesses to achieve their energy-related goals. The energy action projects that these students worked on this year impacted an additional 20,779 students and 16,007 community members. This
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Join The Royalton YES! Team July 16th
There's still time to register for the July 16th Central CERT Tour of Royalton with Royalton's Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team! Register for this free event online at https://certroyalton.eventbrite.com or call 612-626-0555. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. More information below or read all about it here.
YES! Announces 2013-2014 Award Winners!
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
Royalton Team Wins Red Wagon Award!
We're excited to announce that the Royalton YES! team has been selected as a Group Winner of a 2014 Lt. Governor’s Red Wagon Award! The Red Wagon Awards recognize groups of young people from across Minnesota who have worked together to increase civic engagement, improve academic achievement, and/or shown exemplary leadership in their community. The Royalton Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team has
Reducing School Lunch Waste in New London-Spicer
Standing on the second highest point in Kandiyohi County, 20 YES! students, coaches and staff learned they were standing on 100 feet of trash. The Kandiyohi County Landfill receives over 37 tons of garbage a year and over 3 million gallons of paint and stain waste. This makes the Kandiyohi County Recycling Center a vital piece of the solution to reducing the amount of waste going to this
YES! Impacting the Industrial Engineers of the Future: An Alumni Highlight
My name is Kimberly Colgan and last year I was on St. Cloud Apollo High School’s Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team. I am currently a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois studying Industrial Engineering. Last summer, I worked at Star Lake Wilderness Camp as a Woods Counselor. While there, I taught basic wilderness and canoe skills as well as nature appreciation to groups of kids ages