Written by Taylor Templer, West Central Coordinator The Yellow Medicine East YES! team, led by science teacher, Steve Petrich, received funding from the McKnight Foundation last year to install a hydration station. The purpose of this project was to reduce the amount of single-use plastic water bottles being used at the school. According to The Guardian, 1 million plastic bottles are bought
Waste Reduction
Waste-less Lunch Competition
At this year’s YES! Fall Summit on October 3rd at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center students were responsible for bringing their own lunch. We thought this would be a great opportunity for the students to learn about waste. What better way to get the students excited than by creating a friendly competition? A waste-less lunch competition. The winning team would receive $50 toward a pizza
You Forked Up Scarlets
Submitted Post: Mankato West YES! Team The cafeteria has been using plastic utensils since late this fall. While this is not ideal, it is currently necessary to provide cutlery for the students during lunch. The school had previously been using reusable metal silverware but after a large quantity of them went missing, there no longer are enough metal forks and spoons to use for lunch. The
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
