Written by Deb Groebner, Southern Coordinator Students and coaches from YES! teams across Minnesota gathered online May 12th, 2020 to learn about electric vehicles and clean transportation during What will you drive?, our first-ever virtual YES! workshop. The featured presenter was Jukka Kukkonen, an automotive engineer by training and founder of Shift2Electric and MN EV Owners. He is a rock
YES! Alumni Spotlight: Mars Rigenhagen-Risch
Mars was involved with the YES! Program at Lac qui Parle Valley High School his sophomore, junior, and senior years. The main projects Mars worked on were composting food waste from the school's lunches, getting filtration systems on the water fountains at the school, and installing solar-powered lights on the bike trail in Appleton. Mars notes, "I was exposed to a lot of important life skills