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2020-2021 YES! Teams
Carlton High School
- Stay tuned for updates!
Lac qui Parle Valley High School
- Kayaked Signalness (Mountain) Lake at Glacial Lakes State Park to learn about aquatic invasive species and water quality
- Got their 38 acre prairie restoration at their school planted
- Working to design and make signs, bee homes, and benches for their prairie
Mankato West High School
- Stay tuned for updates!
Minnewaska Schools
- Stay tuned for updates!
New London-Spicer Middle School
- Looking to start a collection site in New London to recycle motor oil
New London-Spicer High School
- Working to design a sign for their parking lot prairie
Rockford Middle School – New team!
- Stay tuned for updates!
Royalton High School
- Building a stand-alone 12-volt DC solar power system by using the We Share Solar Suitcase kit and will be sending to a classroom in Uganda to use
- Finishing up building 3 E-bikes to demonstrate the use of alternative energies
- Researching how to compost school lunch waste
- Planning a prairie planting in the spring
- Hoping to take a field trip this spring
Sleepy Eye (Public and St. Mary’s) High Schools
- Made seed bombs using seeds they collected from one of their pollinator gardens
- Working on getting a sign designed for their pollinator garden
- Collecting holiday lights to be recycled
Springfield High School
- Stay tuned for updates!
Virginia High School
- Stay tuned for updates!
Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School
- Stay tuned for updates!
Yellow Medicine East High School
- Hoping to work on pollinator gardens again in the spring