Harbor City International YES Team
3rd year team
Educated other students about recycling, worked with their local Clean and Safe Team and neighboring schools to clean up the streets of Duluth, planted trees with Tree-Plenish and developed a workshop with People of the Estuary to learn about Rights of Nature and water protection.
MACCRAY YES Team
3rd year team
Expanded their recycling program into the elementary school by educating younger students about proper recycling practices.
Mankato East YES Team
2nd year team
Worked on furthering their school’s recycling education, researched storm water drainage both at their school and within their local neighborhood – working to understand how drainage impacts water quality in their local community and investigated next steps of adding prairie restoration or a pollinator garden to their school grounds.
Mankato West YES Team
13th year team
Hosted monthly campus clean-ups in which partnerships were built with other school clubs and began the conversation of electric busing or other eco-friendly alternatives to diesel buses with school administration and local bus company.
New London-Spicer Middle School YES Team
16th year team
Educated elementary students about the importance of the environment and guided them in creating seed bombs to help improve their school prairie restoration project.
Royalton High School YES Team
12th year team
Continued to make progress on their school grounds’ prairie restoration project, which included creating interpretative signs, removing invasive species, building bird houses, teaching kindergarteners about prairies and innovating outdoor classrooms. They also visited Camp Ripley water treatment center and solar field where they learned about microbial scrubbing.
Sleepy Eye YES Team
12th year team
Collected broken and worn out Christmas lights in their annual “Recycle Your Holidays” event, which has grown to include eight drop off locations. This team recycled over 1000 pounds of holiday lights alone!
Watertown-Mayer Middle School YES Team
1st year team
Concentrated on recycling projects this year including gathering recyclables within their school, collecting and recycling broken and worn out holiday lights, visiting the local recycling center and implementing a school pen, marker and crayon recycling program.
Westbrook Walnut Grove YES Team
12th year team
Assisted local hospice garage sale in campus clean up, collected plastic bags and recycled artwork in hopes of creating a bench out of the plastic.
Willmar Community Ed. YES Team
1st year team
Lead and participated in campus clean-up. Created winter ornaments out of recycled paper. Educated peers on climate change, energy efficiency, environmental education, solid waste reduction and green careers through Middle School Education Display for Earth Month.
