Get to Know the Teams
As we start to wrap up the 2011-2012 YES! season, we want everyone to get to know the other YES! teams and their amazing work this season. After this week’s judging session, we’ll soon be announcing the regional award winners – but it’s not about who won awards this season…
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- Earth Tub to Springfield
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- Giving tours of the Greenhouse to 5th graders in Willmar
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- Educating elementary students about recycling in ACGC
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- Collecting nearly 450 pounds of holiday lights in WWG
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- Pine Island YES! team
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- Installing CFL’s in Sleepy Eye
…it’s about all the good works, positive action, and real accomplishments made by every one of the YES! teams this season. We encourage you to learn about what each team worked on this season by exploring their season’s summaries on the Team Page. Simply click on the team names, where hyperlinked, to open the pdf that summarizes their season.
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: Litchfield Mar29-2012
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 toward improving the environment.
“This group has done a series of projects, from recycling about 500 pounds of Christmas lights, to 600 pounds of tennis shoes, to over 50 cell phones as well as giving over $700 worth of equipment to the public library and purchasing a wind turbine for the school,” said Patrick Merrick, WWG teacher and Y.E.S. adviser. (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, learning about the fresh, local produce being grown for the high school cafeteria, along with the biomass burner and solar thermal panels that heat the greenhouse. The fennel, broccoli, and borage the elementary students tasted was all grown over the winter in the greenhouse, alongside diverse varieties of greens that have so far yielded nearly 200 pounds to the Willmar High School cafeteria. Meanwhile, other 5th graders were nearby testing their hands at designing miniature wind turbines, making s’mores in a solar oven, and generating electricity with a bicycle.
The education event was planned by Willmar’s YES! team, and taught by a combination of YES! team members and high school biology students. Willmar YES! coach is Rob Palmer. Aaron Larson manages the greenhouse, and Annette Derouin is Willmar’s Food Service Coordinator.
Oh, and what is borage, anyway? It’s an herb with a small, purple, edible flower. How do the petals taste? Sweet, like honey, says Aaron, who was leading the tour. The 5th graders, though, say borage “tastes like purple.”
Willmar Community Greenhouse
It's green in the Willmar Community Greenhouse!
The Willmar Community Greenhouse has been up and running all season – providing healthy, fresh greens to the Willmar Senior High School only two blocks away. Their work was recently highlighted in the West Central Tribune. Read their story and watch their video here.
