The Spring Edition of the YES! e-Newsletter was recently sent out to YES! supporters. Be sure to check it out here. There are great stories on what teams are working on this spring, recaps of this year's Winter Workshops, a celebration of the McKnight Foundation award winners, and a recent profile of YES! Program Manager Shelli-Kae Foster!
Climate Generation & YES! Team Up for Climate Literacy!
By YES! Program Manager Shelli-Kae Foster Through generous grant support by the McKnight Foundation, YES! continues to work in collaboration with Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy to increase climate literacy in Minnesota. This collective effort has thus far resulted in YES! students, coaches and staff benefiting from Climate Generation’s knowledge and know-how at 2 YES! Fall Summits, 3
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
Shining a Light on the ACGC YES! Team’s Partnership with CERTs
By YES! Coordinator Kory Klebe Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) has long been a wonderful partner of the YES! program. CERTs has helped to provide networking, education, and funding for several YES! projects. Tuesday, March 8th CERTs had an Energy Networking and Priority Setting event. At this event YES! Program Manager Shelli-Kae Foster and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) YES! team members
Native Plants and Monarch Butterflies
By YES! Coordinator Sarah Gainey On Friday, February 26, middle school students from North Junior High in St Cloud and Sartell Middle School immersed themselves in learning about the importance of native plants and got their hands a little dirty to help monarch butterflies! Both teams have potential native plant garden projects in the works at their schools and used this day to help move that