Celebrate
Game On! Challenge Course
Celebrate your Game On! successes with this exciting and active 5-station challenge course. Learn more>>
Go for the Gold with the HealthierUS School Challenge
Action for Healthy Kids is committed to helping schools receive national recognition through the USDA’s HealthierUS School Challenge.
The HealthierUS School Challenge was established to recognize schools that are creating healthier school environments through the promotion of good nutrition and physical activity. Four recognition levels are offered: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Gold Award of Distinction.
Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge can help your school prepare for the application process by ensuring your school:
- Provides nutrition education
- Provides students with opportunities to engage in regular physical activity
- Works to improve the quality of foods served
Learn more about the HealthierUS School Challenge.
Congratulations!
You did it!
You set the challenges, helped students experience the eat better and move more challenges, involved families and community members and encouraged kids and adults to set goals and track their progress.
Just as it was important to let everyone know what Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge was about at the beginning of the school year, it is also crucial to communicate the program’s successes throughout the year. At the end of each challenge event and again at the end of the entire program year, host celebration events. Celebrations give you the opportunity to reinforce the program’s core messages, recognize the achievements of students and adults, thank staff and volunteers who contributed to the challenge activities and take pride as a school and a community in what you accomplished.
Distribute recognition certificates and other incentives to students, faculty, staff, parents, community volunteers, local businesses – anyone who has participated in Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge. Don’t forget to send press releases highlighting the outcomes of Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge and acknowledging outstanding participants in and contributors to your program.
And perhaps best of all, celebrating gives you a chance to build excitement for the next challenge and the next year!
Tips to Help Celebrate Your Success!
- Host a Challenge Course Event!
- Describe the highlights of the challenge that has just ended.
- If possible, list the number of students and adults who participated.
- If appropriate, state the results of tasting surveys (or other student polls) and the number of students and adults who participated in special events (such as Kids Walk-to-School).
- List the winners of the poster and/or morning announcement contest(s) (and if applicable, list the incentive offered in recognition).
- Thank those who helped make the challenge period successful, especially outstanding community volunteers.
- Thank community organizations that partnered with or otherwise supported the challenge period.
- Thank local businesses that contributed food, equipment and/or incentives.
- Where appropriate, include photographs of Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge events and activities (such as taste tests and Move More activities).
