We would love to hear from all those who attended YES Winter Workshop 2001! Please click on the appropriate link below to complete a brief survey. Northern Winter Workshop: January, 12th at Prairie Woods Southern Winter Workshop: January, 19th in Lamberton Thank you in advance for helping to better the YES program!
Springfield YES video selected as one of the top ten in the nation!
Springfield High School YES team entered the Samsung: Hope for Children, Solve for Tomorrow video competition and has been chosen among the top 10 in the nation! In this video, they highlight their Energy Monitoring Program (EMP) they started with the middle school and eight ways they help reduce energy waste. Voting is now closed. Thank you to all who voted for not only supporting the
Photos from Winter Workshop at Prairie Woods
Another successful YES! Winter Workshop: among the highlights. . . students experimented with high r-value window insulation strategies, sited a hypothetical greenhouse, peered under the hood of our new electric truck, peered into the combustion chamber of a biomass furnace, peered into a coal-fired power plant, peered up at a 2-megawatt wind turbine, and video-conferenced with a Swedish biomass
Northern Winter Workshop 2011
5 teams gather at Prairie Woods ELC What a great day! We are thankful for all who participated and helped make the day such a success. More photos and video will be posted soon, but you can check the YES facebook page for a glimpse of the various experiences students had throughout the day. (pictured: students visit with Dave Pederson of Prairie Woods to learn more about the solar tracking
i3@MTC: youth science retreat
CERTs Conference
Free Registration Available for High School Students at the CERTs Conference! Thanks to the generosity of the University of Minnesota’s Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, there are 25 scholarships available for high school students who wish to attend the main day of the CERTs conference, Thursday, February 3rd. The accompanying teacher(s) will get the reduced rate of $40 for the day;