Litchfield YES! collaborates on hydration stations
Drinking in the Benefits of Hydration Stations Litchfield makes the news! “Litchfield High School students involved with FCCLA and the YES! teams obtain grants, help from local business to retrofit hydration stations above existing drinking fountains to encourage the use of reusable water bottles.” Article from the Litchfield Independent Review. Read more here. Read More →
Westbrook-Walnut Grove team in the news
The Marshall Independent, April 3 edition, highlighted the WWG team. Nice job, Chargers! WWG YES! students band together to protect the environment A small, but mighty group of students from Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School are not only learning about the environment around them, they’re actually doing something to improve it. The WWG Y.E.S. (Youth Energy Summit) students have recently been working on a number of projects that are geared... [Read More...]
Got borage? Statewide attention + 5th grade education event at Willmar
Willmar 5th graders get up close and personal with solar thermal panels heating the greenhouse. The Willmar Community Greenhouse is attracting more attention: It’s featured on Minnesota Department of Education’s homepage, Minnesota School Nutrition Association’s homepage, and in a statewide presentation about new school nutrition regulations. Meanwhile, rotating groups of 5th graders toured Willmar Community Greenhouse this week,... [Read More...]
Creative inventions. . . ACGC’s education event
In the central Minnesota town of Cosmos last Friday, a 2nd grader invented an “air” plane that didn’t use gas–it ran on just air. Call it the “grasshopper,” the student said. . . “because grasshopper can fly for a long ways too.” Members of the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City YES! team invested long hours and priceless creativity in developing active-learning modules for elementary students in their district. The “innovation”... [Read More...]
YES! northern expansion underway
If you are in Benton, Stearns, Morrison, Todd, Pope, Douglas, Grant, or Ottertail Counties, we want to hear from you! In upcoming months, YES! will be building partnerships with schools and communities in this new region. We’re especially happy to welcome Shelli-Kae Foster into the YES! team as coordinator of YES! in this new region and as project manager for the LCCMR grant. This expansion is made possible in part by the Minnesota Environment... [Read More...]
