Do you know how much energy the sun produces? Ask anyone of the YES! team members from Discovery Woods Montessori School in Brainerd and they will tell you the sun delivers more energy to Earth in one hour than humanity consumes over the course of a year, making solar the only renewable energy source that can keep up with global demands. On March 7th, seven students and their coach attended Clean
Climate Change and Peat Bogs
On March 12th, 12 students from the Northern Lights Community School YES! team and their coaches ventured up to the Marcel Experimental Forest to learn about the Spruce Project. The Spruce Project is a longitudinal study of how Climate Change will affect the peat bogs of the northern hemisphere. Our tour guides for the day were John Latimer, KAXE Staff Phenologist and research assistant for the
Wrenshall YES! Team Documents Their Work Through Blogging
Wrenshall's YES! Blog documents the work of both their High Mileage and Solar Boat Teams.
What Will You Bring to the Zombie Apocalypse?
Alison Bettin, founder of the Winona seed bank and library and owner of Tiny Spoons asked the students, who excels at using a crossbow? With very few arms in the air, she goes on to explain that her asset for the zombie apocalypse is her knowledge of growing food and preserving seeds in order to fuel the protectors. That knowledge she shared with 13 students from Mankato West High School and the
Back to Nature in Spicer MN
On Wednesday, March 21st, 2018, 17 students and their coaches from New London Spicer High School, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School, and DREAM Technical Academy YES! teams came together to learn about what a prairie is, why they are beneficial to the environment, how prairies and climate change connect, and different renewable energy sources at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning
Forest Lake YES! Coach honored by MAEE (Minnesota Association for Environmental Education)
Click Here to read about Devon Vojtech, Forest Lake YES! Coach, honored by MAEE (Minnesota Association for Environmental Education).