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New Year’s Resolutions and Wishes from the FUTP 60 Youth Council!

January 1, 2016

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“My New Year's Resolution is this: I want to have our most successful Student Ambassador Summit yet, this summer. I want to fully establish our Youth Council's role of central leadership of the FUTP 60 program....

Why I Joined FUTP 60

December 28, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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I joined Fuel Up to Play 60 because I felt it is important to live an active and healthy lifestyle. I have been involved in the program for 3 years, and during this time I have gotten into better shape, my grad...

Celebrating the Holidays

December 22, 2015

Community, Eat Smart, Getting Active, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, Sports

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To raise awareness in our community for our school's FUTP 60 program, I came up with a few holiday ideas and got my team involved. Earlier this month, several Student Ambassadors and Program Advisors walked ...

Including Everyone and Making a Difference

December 18, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, Sports, uncategorized

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Last year I was in gym class and there were a few students with disabilities in my class. Unfortunately, some of the other students in my school were not very accepting and constantly mocked and made fun of the...

Autumn Wrap Up

December 8, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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As autumn comes to a close I want to share my experiences of what my school's Fuel Up to Play 60 team has been up to for the past couple of months. To start off, I'm going all the way back to the first day of s...

Growing Strong with Greens

November 20, 2015

Community, Eat Smart, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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I was recently cleaning out my family garden for the winter and decided to multi-task by exercising with the vegetables at the same time! Not only are they good for eating, but good for a workout too as they ar...

Finding New Leadership Opportunities

November 17, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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When I was in 7th grade, I threw together an essay to help my school win a Fuel Up to Play 60 grant. I was barely a part of my school’s Fuel Up to Play 60 program and the first time I had ever even been on the ...

Fuel Up to Play 60 Winter Fitness Ideas

November 13, 2015

Community, Getting Active, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, Sports, uncategorized

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1. Get active by exercising while watching TV! During commercial breaks, instead of sitting on the couch, get up and start moving. Do some jumping jacks while your NFL team plays. Do some crunches while you lis...

Veteran’s Day

November 11, 2015

Community, Leadership, uncategorized

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Outgoing, confident, unreserved, humorous, powerful, lively: all words used to describe Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor and U.S. Army veteran, Mrs. Michelle Johnson. While traveling to our first Fuel Up to P...

Speaking at GENYOUth’s Arizona Town Hall

November 6, 2015

Community, Leadership

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This month, I gave a speech to almost one hundred important people such as a Senator, multiple CEOs, a local pediatrician, and the superintendent of a school district in Arizona! Now to some this may not seem l...

How Fuel Up to Play 60 Supports Farm to School

October 27, 2015

Community, Eat Smart, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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I am a Student Ambassador at my middle school in Wisconsin. I live in a dairy state. We have a lot of farms. In the short six mile drive from my house to school, I go by seven farms! There are also some green t...

Helping Our Community

October 23, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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I first got involved in my community by joining the service club at my school. We are currently helping the veterans in our local area by planning a special veterans’ parade. Currently we are making medals to g...

Walk to School Day

October 13, 2015

Community, Getting Active, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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In celebration of National Walk to School Day on October 7, my Fuel Up to Play 60 team and I organized two walks throughout that day at my school. To get the word out ahead of time to students, staff and par...

Ideas for this School Year

October 9, 2015

Community, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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Hey, this is Roddy, National Ambassador, and I wanted to give you some inspiration and ideas based on activities that I’ve worked on for Fuel Up to Play 60! For our Physical Activity Play, we had a...

Fuel Up to Play 60 en español

October 5, 2015

Community, Eat Smart, Getting Active, Leadership, Making Healthy Changes, uncategorized

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I have been involved with Fuel Up to Play 60 for three years, and it has given me many wonderful experiences. Fuel Up to Play 60 gave me the opportunity to become a leader on our school's leadership t...