NEWARK — The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is supporting the third annual Delaware Youth Environmental Summit on April 14, with sponsorship and an address by Secretary Shawn M. Garvin, plus presentations by DNREC staff.

The student-led conference will be held at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall Conference Center, Newark, and is offered free of charge — including lunch — for Delaware high school students and educators who are advisers to school teams.

Registration is open through Friday here. Attendance is limited.

Planned by students, YES! aims to inspire youth-led action and environmental leadership through speakers, workshops and nonprofit and agency exhibitors. In addition to Mr. Garvin, speakers include U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, state Sen. Stephanie Hansen, Sierra Club president Ramón Cruz and Andrew Fagerheim, climate advocate and Columbia University student.

Topics will include pathways to green schools, renewable energy, factory farming, reducing plastic in schools, environmental justice, climate resiliency, electric vehicles, our diet’s impact on climate change and environmental advocacy.

Now in its third year, YES! was created by Delaware educators, nonprofit environmental organizations and public agencies. The inaugural conference in February 2020 was attended by teams from more than 20 Delaware schools. In 2021, a virtual summit was held with over 30 schools represented.