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2021-2022 YES! Teams
Crosslake Community School – New Team!
- Coming soon!
Discovery Woods Montessori
- Coming soon!
Lac qui Parle Valley High School
- Learned about aquatic invasive species and water quality while canoeing the Lake Florida Sloughs
- Collected prairie seeds in Benson with US Fish and Wildlife expert to be used in other restoration projects
MACCRAY High School – New Team!
- Planning to install a rain garden in the community park by their school to prevent flooding
Mankato West High School
- Coming soon!
Minnewaska Schools
- Interested in doing a water quality or climate change related project
New London-Spicer Schools
- Helped educate the entire 5th grade about prairie plants and harvested seeds from their nature area to spread this winter
- Installed signs in their rain garden to educate the public about the area
- Collecting holiday lights in their school and community to recycle
- Cleaning and stenciling storm drains to advertise the Adopt-the-Drain Program
- Planning an environmental education day for the elementary students
- Planning an environmental education week with themed dress-up days for the middle school
- Collecting shoes for Soles4Souls
Northern Lights Community School
- Coming soon!
Parkers Prairie High School
- Coming soon!
Pine Island High School – New Team!
- Coming soon!
Royalton High School
- Coming soon!
Sleepy Eye (Public and St. Mary’s) High Schools
- Coming soon!
Springfield Middle School
- Coming soon!
Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School
- Coming soon!
Yellow Medicine East High School
- Presented to the local Lion’s Club to seek project support
- Distributed bins to elementary classrooms and art rooms for marker recycling project
- Planning a shoreline cleanup along the Minnesota River
- Getting signs for the recycling bins they bought for sporting events
- Working to get garbage bins in the parking lot to prevent littering
“It feels good to make a difference in the environment and bringing positive changes to our school.” –YES! Student
