We are pleased to announce the 2015-16 recipients for the McKnight Foundation Project Funding, facilitated through YES!. The project funding is a result of a larger grant received by the YES! Program from The McKnight Foundation in the fall of 2015 to bring climate literacy to YES! students across greater Minnesota. YES! offered $7,000 to YES! teams whose projects engage and empower youth to make
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WWG YES! Projects For Sale
By WWG Earth YES! students The WWG Earth YES! class has decided to take recycling to the next level! The following three projects are all example of how we are reducing, reusing, and recycling, resulting in products that you can buy to help our YES! team: Handmade bags: We are taking old colored t-shirts and turning them into handmade bags. The bags are great for carrying things to and from
Plastic Bag Recycling at WWG
By Matthew Burns, WWG Earth YES! student The WWG Earth YES! class is recycling plastic bags. This year’s goal is to collect over 16,000. We have collected over 2,000 bags, and it’s been a little over 3 months. We encourage the people of Westbrook to participate in the recycling. The bags that get recycled are sorted and counted; the colored bags are separated out to make bracelets. The white
Lending Library
By Pakou Vue, WWG student The Westbrook-Walnut Grove Earth Y.E.S class is donating energy-monitoring devices to the Westbrook Public Library this Monday, March 19th. Visitors will be able to check out these devices with their library card, and will come with instructions on how to use them. We are calling this the "Lending Library". The devices that we have so far are: Heat sensors: Allow
Kilo-WHAT?
By Kasia Her, WWG student Recently the Westbrook Walnut Grove Earth YES! class performed an Energy Audit Project in our school. The high-school's energy usage was calculated by students who were each assigned five to eight different rooms in the school. In each room, students measured all electrical appliances using a kilowatt meter. A kilowatt meter is a device used to find the amount of
Green Sneakers
By Pakou Vue, WWG student The WWG Earth Y.E.S class has been doing the Green Sneakers project. This project included the communities of Westbrook and Walnut Grove including both schools. We put up posters and bins in the communities and schools. We were able to bring in almost 600lbs of shoes. Not only are we keeping 600lbs of garbage out of the landfills, but we are also giving over 300 pairs