This is a guest blog post by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! Team Recently, the WWG Earth YES! Class has been working on one of their recent winter projects, the Trombe Wall Project. To start off the project, they needed to experiment the effectiveness of the Trombe walls. At the start, they constructed two miniature boxes for the experiment. The WWG students built the testable miniature
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WWG YES! Project Heating Up: Solar Pop Can Heaters
This is a guest blog post by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! team March 25: We have just finished our second model of the solar pop can heater. Our next step is to take it outside and test it. We are hoping to find a larger degrees difference with this bigger model. Stay tuned to see our results! March 14: The WWG Earth YES! team has finished and tested our first solar pop can heater. It
A First-Year YES! Team’s Reflections
By David Rice, Coach of Minnesota New Country School YES! Team This is the first year Minnesota New Country School (MNCS) has participated in the YES! program. MNCS has competed in the MTEEA Supermileage Vehicle competition for many years. We also have operated what we called the “Green Team” to tackle school recycling challenges. In general, we have been helping students develop projects that
Hydroponics: Growing Ideas and Plants Without Soil
By Laurentian Staff Member Sam Horner Growing fruits and vegetables in northern Minnesota can be a tricky task to accomplish. Greenhouses help to begin and prolong the growing season, but there are still times when winter makes it too hard to grow any plants outside. The Northern Lights Community School YES! team wanted to see if there was a way to circumvent winter, and grow food all year long.
YES! Schools Learn to Green Their Cafeterias
On March 2nd, the YES! teams from Little Falls Community Middle School and Melrose Middle School attended a YES! Winter Workshop entitled ‘Greening Your Cafeteria’. The workshop was held at the new space for the Sprout Food Hub in Little Falls. The teams toured the facilities, learned about the Farm to School Network, and got to see the space that will be used as an indoor farmers market as well
WWG Earth YES! Class Educates Elementary Students
This is a guest post by the WWG Earth YES! Class On February 24th 2016, WWG Earth YES! team went to the WWG Elementary and had a presentation about recycling. We presented to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. We taught them what recycling is, what impact landfills have on animals, and what can and cannot be recycled. We also incorporated a game that went with the presentation to. We