2018-2019 YES! Teams
If you want to join this great network of YES! teams for the 2018-2019 season, contact us at sayyes@yesmn.org
Carlton
- Stay tuned for projects!
Cherry Middle School
- Stay tuned for projects!
Discovery Woods Montessori
- Exploring “Where does our garbage go?”
- Planning the annual environmental event
- Plan to help the “littles” sort their garbage in the lunch room
- Researching which water bodies are in greatest need of clean up, monitoring and testing for AIS.
- Looking at volunteering at the ice fishing contest to clean up garbage (will be given a stipend for help)
DREAM Technical Academy
- Stay tuned for projects!
Forest Lake
- Stay tuned for projects!
Glencoe-Silver Lake
- Stay tuned for projects!
Lac qui Parle Valley
- Continuing to plant and harvest in their deep winter green house.
- Trying to figure out how to capture and store rain water to water their plants with in the winter.
Mankato West
- Stay tuned for projects!
Minnetonka (New Team)
- Designing and constructing an early season, low energy use green house
- Designing and constructing a small scale aquaponics station for growing lettuce and basil all winter long.
- Demonstrate to home owners and renters how to grow starter plants and seasonal crops at the local scale.
Moorhead – Youth Educational Services
- Stay tuned for projects!
New London-Spicer Middle School
- Continuing to plant and harvest in their deep winter green house where greens get served at lunch.
- Raising money to purchase LED light bulbs for their school.
- Going to assist the HS team with the native plantings and rain garden,
New London-Spicer High School
- Planning to design and construct a rain garden with native plantings near their wetland area in order to help with erosion and runoff issues.
New Prague
- Installing a Hydration station
- Water testing in the school and DIY filters for sinks
- Building playscapes at Ney Nature Center and continuing volunteering
- Up-cycling wood pallets
- Agriscaping design at school and Farmhouse Market
- Hosting Community Green Day
- Growing food using an aquaponics system with tilapia, sucker fish, and gold fish
- Growing food in a living tower system
- Creating signage for their rain garden and pollinator garden
- Building 3 raised garden beds
- Making natural products and looking at the benefits
Northern Lights Community School
- Stay tuned for projects!
Parkers Prairie (New Team)
- Researching water quality improvement projects for local Lake Adly
- Researching school site pollinator garden collaboration with Art Department
- Exploring composting
ROCORI (Cold Spring/Richmond)
- Installing a solar panel for their school courtyard
- Continuing school wide recycling
Royalton
- Researching how to design and build an electronic bike
- Researching doing a river clean-up next spring
- Exploring water quality testing options and connecting with local water quality/conservation experts
Sartell-St. Stephen Middle School
- Creating peer educational lessons
Sleepy Eye (Public and St. Mary’s)
- Creating signage for their prairie restoration project
- Lights in Motion
- Getting the word out about LED light bulbs while distributing them to the community
- Recycling holiday lights
- Minnesota Valley River Watch
- Recycling milk cartons
- B3 Benchmarking all the buildings in Sleepy Eye that the city owns
- Designing a recycling sign that RVS Trucks with put on the side of their waste pick-up trucks
- Building 8 bee homes
Springfield
- Continuing to plant and harvest in their deep winter green house where greens get served at lunch.
- Holiday light recycling
- Adopt-a-Highway
- Pop Tab collection
Westbrook-Walnut Grove
- Recycling education at sports events
- Educating the community about recycling
- Writing newspaper articles and putting it on their website
- Having the community come up with ideas and beautify the container for all the cans
- Holiday light recycling
- Work in the greenhouse with the greenhouse class
- Key recycling
Yellow Medicine East
- Installing another hydration station
- Planting and harvesting in their community garden
- Brainstorming water collection and storage methods for their community orchard
“It feels good to make a difference in the environment and bringing positive changes to our school.” –St. Cloud North Junior High YES! Student
