Over 40 students from 3 YES! teams met last week for the Renewable Energy Winter Workshop held at St. John's University. The day started with a warm welcome from Alex Chocholousek from the Office of Sustainability at the College of St. Benedict. Next Dan Backes from Blattner Energy gave an excellent explanation of how wind turbines are produced and installed and expressed the importance of
WWG Earth YES! Team Phone Recycling
We, the WWG Earth YES! team, are proud to say that we are moving on to our next project. We are going to phone recycling now. In the past we've done things such as collect plastic bags and holiday lights. But now we are moving onto something else. In this project, we raise awareness of cell phone recycling in our community, encouraging them to recycle their old, used cell phones. We hope that this
An Exciting Day in Mankato
At the wastewater treatment plant in Mankato, they were able to identify when half-time of yesterday's Super Bowl occurred without having to watch the game. No, they weren't listening to it on the radio or tracking it on their cell phones-all they had to do was watch the influx of water that occurs in their facility about an hour after half-time. The 30 YES! students and coaches from Mankato
School Lunch Waste Winter Workshop in New London-Spicer
Organics (food) waste accounts for 31% of the waste stream in Minnesota. Learn how your school can reduce school lunch waste, recycle milk cartons and save your school money! The workshop will feature experts from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Recycling Association of MN (RAM) and the Carton Council.
YES! Impacting the Industrial Engineers of the Future: An Alumni Highlight
My name is Kimberly Colgan and last year I was on St. Cloud Apollo High School’s Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team. I am currently a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois studying Industrial Engineering. Last summer, I worked at Star Lake Wilderness Camp as a Woods Counselor. While there, I taught basic wilderness and canoe skills as well as nature appreciation to groups of kids ages
Learning About Automotive Engineering and Biofuels
What do a 3-D printer, ethanol, fund-raising, and automotive engineering have in common? They are all things that 20 YES! students from Glencoe-Silver Lake High School and Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School learned about at the recent Exploring the Ethanol Industry and Automotive Design Practices Winter Workshop in Glencoe. Both teams have hopes of completing a vehicle for the MTEEA Supermilege