This spring, families and schools across the country joined in the Fire Up Your Feet activity challenge, a program designed to encourage students, families, and school staff to walk, bike, and get physical activity in daily life. Together, families and schools logged a collective 292,400 minutes of activity and more than 7,000 miles. WAY TO GO!
Keep moving this summer and we’ll welcome you back this fall for our Activity Challenge October 1-31, 2013. New schools and participants can register at any time!
A big congratulations to all the winners from Fire Up Your Feet partners: Safe Routes Partnership, Kaiser Permanente and the National PTA! We awarded nearly $10,000 and will be making a big difference in these schools physical activity and wellness programs!
Baltimore AreaTulip Grove Elementary School
California
Nea Community Learning Center
Poinsettia Elementary School
Lincoln Middle School
Lakeview Elementary School
Chester W Nimitz Elementary School
Sunnyside Elementary School
Colorado
Shelton Elementary School
Hawaii
Iliahi Elementary School
Wailae Elementary Public Charter School
Minnesota
Lakeview Elementary School
Olson Elementary School
Creek Valley Elementary School
NE Ohio
Chagrin Falls Middle School
Oregon
Archbishop Howard School
Hosford Middle School
Atkinson Elementary
Findley Elementary
James John Elementary
Beach Elementary
Cummings Elementary
SW Washington
Fishers Landing Elementary School
Washington, DC Area
Wolftrap Elementary School
Fire Up Your Feet is a core program of the Safe Routes Partnership. It began as a pilot program in 2011 thanks in part to the leadership of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and expanded nationally this spring thanks to generous support from Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools and in partnership with the National PTA. Fire Up Your Feet encourages families, students and schools to work together and create active lifestyles that inspire all children to be healthy and physically active.
Any school or PTA group in the country can use a full range of free, age-appropriate resources and educational materials to encourage physical activity to, from and at school. Select regions offer the Activity Challenge where students, parents and school staff can track their physical activity for one month and the schools with high percentages of participation are eligible for cash awards to invest in school wellness activities.
Fire Up Your Feet healthy fundraising provides PTAs and school groups a healthy, easy choice for a school fundraisers. This online fundraising tool inspires your family, students and teachers to get moving to raise money for the cause of fighting childhood obesity and also make a big different in your school!
Learn more at www.fireupyourfeet.org.