Spring Judging 2013
As we start to wrap up the 2012-2013 YES! season, we want to congratulate each of our YES! teams on their amazing work this school year. As part of the YES! Program, we offer spring judging at the end of each school year to highlight teams’ work and celebrate their successes. The Sleepy Eye YES! team proudly displaying their 2011-2012 YES! awards A panel of judges selects a recipient team for each of these following awards based on the teams’... [Read More...]
Exploring Passive Solar Greenhouses and Local Food in Milan
“Is growing your own food worth it?” To those in the Milan community, the answer is yes. They have seen firsthand the value of having great tasting and healthy food that they grow themselves. Over thirty students from New London-Spicer, Yellow Medicine East, Lac qui Parle and Litchfield attended the Milan YES! Winter Workshop and had the opportunity to see and experience the amazing things happening with passive solar greenhouses in this area... [Read More...]
“A very fun and educational experience” in Alexandria
Students learn how a solar panel is made while touring Solar Skies, LLC in Alexandria How much waste in schools can be composted? YES! students recently learned that 30 percent of waste generated in schools is compostable. Over 40 students and teachers from the YES! teams at Eden Valley-Watkins, New York Mills, Redwood Falls, ACGC and Brooten-Belgrade-Elrosa visited Alexandria on February 13th to learn new strategies for using renewable energy... [Read More...]
What makes a green building green?
58 YES! students from Sleepy Eye, Westbrook-Walnut Grove, Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (GFW) and Mankato West gathered in Mankato on February 6th to learn about green building and energy reduction. These teams have each been focusing on different energy-reduction projects in their schools and communities this year. YES! students learn about the physics of energy through hands-on experiments The students started off the day by checking out the energy-monitoring... [Read More...]
YES! Students Tour One of the First Green Ribbon Schools
Imagine pulling up to a school that has priority parking for low emissions and energy efficient vehicles and proudly displays their school’s wind turbine like a badge of honor. This is a reality for the students of Kennedy Community School in St. Joseph. The head custodian at Kennedy Community School explains the school’s geothermal heating system YES! teams from Rocori, Foley, St. Cloud Apollo and Eden Valley-Watkins had the opportunity... [Read More...]
