Guest Blog Post by the WWG YES! Team On Wednesday, October 19, the WWG Earth YES! team invited all high school to help start a year of giving back to the community. These students took the first part of their M.E.A. break to help rake neighborhood lawns. Bringing their own rakes, over 50 kids showed up to support the effort started by 10 Earth YES! Students. The students in Earth YES! wanted to
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YES! Announces 2014-2015 Award Winners!
YES! Awards 2014-2015 YES! teams all did great work this season! We recently concluded the YES! judging for the 2014-2015 season. YES! awards were presented within each cohort. Unless otherwise noted, 1st Place winners received $750; 2nd Place winners received $500; 3rd Place winners received $250. See what each team accomplished by reading more on the Teams page. Southern Cohort 1st: Sleepy
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
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