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Talk with an adult advisor in your school or community center about getting involved to help you and your friends lead a healthy change project. Have an advisor in mind? Send them an nrg Powered by Choice e-card.
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Together with your friends and adult advisor, decide what type of healthy change you want to make. Check out nrg Success Stories for ideas, and check out all of the changes you can make in your school or community!
Raise funds to make your healthy change happen by holding an nrg Powered by Choice Ultimate Frisbee Fundraiser. We'll show you how.
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Want to share the nrg Powered by Choice message with younger kids? Organize a Move it Outside event just for them.
Get Active! Change your physical education department or community center with these cool equipment options.
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Dance, Dance Revolution by Konami
www.ddrgame.com
Dance Dance Revolution is an interactive game with a simple concept, high energy music, and fun-filled game play that gets users off the couch and provides a healthy, energetic, fitness workout. The premiere dancing game in which players move their body to upbeat tunes while allowing them room to exhibit their own innovative flare and original dance moves, DDR combines quick reflex action with pulsating dance music for intense 'get-up-and-play' fun. Players are challenged to match their dance steps with the flashing arrows on the screen while keeping up with the high-energy beat of the music.
View a video of schools using DDR for physical education classes!
Cat-eye Fitness Game Bike, by Sony
www.cateyefitness.com/GameBike/index.html
The GameBike transforms gaming into a truly interactive experience. The Plug and Play Cateye GameBike connects to Sony Playstation 2, and other video game consoles. Play against the computer, or, connect additional GameBikes and compete against friends. The Cateye GameBike works with any of the 50+ speed-related games that are popular today, including many car, off-road, speedboat, and motorcycle racing games, to name just a few.
Polar USA
www.polarusa.com
Polar products help you listen to your body so you can understand its story. When you understand and listen to your body, you'll be ready to reach your fitness goals, improve your sports training and performance or just live a healthier lifestyle. Heart Rates Monitors, Physical Education Equipment, and more.
EDGE, the Educational Disc Golf Experience
www.edgediscgolf.org
Offer starter packs to full park course packages that are intended for those schools that want to install a park quality course featuring the industry standard in tournament targets. The 20 competition disc sets offer students disc choices for use in interschool or intramural competition, as well as providing discs for class instruction
Ultimate Frisbee
www.upa.org
Coordinate an after school program
- Martial arts
- Hip-hop classes
Check out the following ways to reduce screen time by venturing outdoors.
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American Canoe Association
www.americancanoe.org
American Hiking Society
www.americanhiking.org
Leave No Trace (conservation)
www.lnt.org
nrgOutdoors (list of close to home parks and trails)
www.keystoneactivezone.org
Get Outdoors PA (state park explorations)
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/getoutdoorspa
iConserve PA (environment/conservation)
www.iconservepa.org
Ski PA
www.skipa.com
Search for bikes, hiking equipment and kayaks at:
LL Bean
www.llbean.com
REI
www.rei.com
Want better options in your cafeteria for meals and snacks?
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Healthy Vending
http://www.healthyvending.com
Fit Fuel launched its first Fuel Zone convenient nutrition center in 2002. Today, the company works with an international network of over 10,000 vending operators to make healthy eating more convenient than ever before.
The Vollrath Company
http://www.vollrathco.com
Distributes salad bars and Corsair Display Systems such as carts and kiosks; Special options such as lit canopies, menu boards/systems and custom graphics will create a welcoming environment
Betson
http://www.betson.com/vending/Ref_Carousel
Offers refrigerated vending to help improve the variety of healthy nutrition choices.
(Back to Top)Or you could help increase water or no to low calorie beverages by hosting a water fundraiser...
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Celebrate fruits & veggies!
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Good Apples - the virtual farmers market
www.goodapples.org
Use our events to start a healthy snack program:
Or start a school or community garden: www.thefoodtrust.org
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Share your success story by posting Pics & Clips.
nrg Ultimate Frisbee Fundraiser Video
