By YES! Coordinator Katelyn Larsen Students from the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) and Sleepy Eye YES! teams convened at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato on March 4 to learn about business start-ups and entrepreneurship in the southern region of Minnesota. Our first speaker was Ed Fahrforth, Sales Manager at LJP Waste & Recycle. When Ed started Minnesota’s first recycling company in 1989,
Winter Workshop
Alexandria Students Gather to Learn and Plan for Native Pollinator Habitat
By YES! Coordinator Winston Pennington-Flax Late last fall, after a news story surfaced that monarch butterflies may be absent from Minnesota's landscape in as few as ten years, the students of the Alexandria Area High School YES! team saw a major problem in our ecosystem as well as an opportunity to create positive change in their school and community. Fast forward to late winter, and the
Renewable Energy at St. John’s University
Over 40 students from 3 YES! teams met last week for the Renewable Energy Winter Workshop held at St. John's University. The day started with a warm welcome from Alex Chocholousek from the Office of Sustainability at the College of St. Benedict. Next Dan Backes from Blattner Energy gave an excellent explanation of how wind turbines are produced and installed and expressed the importance of
Learning About Automotive Engineering and Biofuels
What do a 3-D printer, ethanol, fund-raising, and automotive engineering have in common? They are all things that 20 YES! students from Glencoe-Silver Lake High School and Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School learned about at the recent Exploring the Ethanol Industry and Automotive Design Practices Winter Workshop in Glencoe. Both teams have hopes of completing a vehicle for the MTEEA Supermilege
Winter Workshop Options
We are excited to once again offer Winter Workshops to those schools involved in the YES! Program. The objectives of the Winter Workshop are to provide project specific help, hands-on learning, and team mentoring. The Winter Workshop options this year include: Energy Reduction and Green Building in Mankato, Waste Reduction and Recycling in Willmar, Solar Tour in Alexandria, Turning Waste into
Royalton YES! team “in the news…”
Article adapted from the 'Morrison County Record', an ECM Publishers, Inc. Publication "It is good to work with the community on how to change to green without changing lifestyles," stated YES Club president Damian Lenarz. In it's first year, the Royalton YES! Club has been involved with assessing and setting goals to continue working with and educating the community and school district toward