By Tom McDougall Students from the Forest Lake High school Environmental Club/ YES! Team, organized a community based Climate Convening session with assistance from the partnership of Climate Generation and Youth Eco Solutions (YES!) on Monday April 29, 2019. The partnership is funded by the McKnight Foundation. Over 30 students, community elected officials, teachers and residents of Forest
YES! Alumni Spotlight: Brooke Tschida
Brooke was involved in the YES! program for 5 years while in 8th-12th grade at Royalton. Throughout the years she participated in YES!, Brooke worked on a variety of projects including constructing and racing an electric car at the Supermileage Competition, racing a solar-powered boat, constructing a solar-powered trailer to haul their electric car and solar powered boat to events, helping to
Third Annual YES! State Award Ceremony at the Twins Game
By Taylor Templer The Third Annual YES! (Youth Eco Solutions) State Award Ceremony was held at Target Field on May 12th, 2019. This event was attended by over 100 YES! students, coaches, staff, and supporters. Top qualifying teams included New London-Middle School, Sartell Middle School, Sleepy Eye Schools, and Northern Lights Community School (Warba). YES! works hard to bring opportunities
Northeast Regional Judging
By Sam Horner In the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota, we have had an amazing year of YES! that has produced many different projects from all three of our teams. We started with our Fall Summit in October and moved to our Winter Workshops during February and March. One of the final events for our teams is the Spring Judging Event. This event was held at the Virginia Public Library on April 24th,
Central Regional Judging
By Taylor Templer On April 25th the Central Region had their annual Spring judging at Dahmes Stainless Inc. in New London. We hosted five judges including Dan Tepfer (Kandiyohi Power Cooperative), Tim Parsons (Terwisscha Construction), Jon Morales (Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District), Matt Amore (Nova Tech Engineering), and Donna DeGeest (Dahmes Stainless Inc.). The judges were blown
Southern and Metro Regional Judging
By Sophie Bishop Spring Judging is an important part of being in the YES! program. Spring Judging is when YES! teams present their work the past year to experts who have backgrounds in different environmental fields. After the presentations, the judges discuss the teams on goal setting and teamwork, community leadership and education, ecological impact and literacy, and separately on water
