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Rancho Las Positas Elementary
School of the Year |
Rancho Las Positas’ has been a finalist in the Governor’s Challenge each of the last three years. Each of the past three years 100% of the school’s students have taken and completed the Governor’s Challenge. In 2006 the school developed the Raccoon Running Club and since that time Rancho students have run over 113,000 miles (around the world four times). Rancho’s running club has been replicated across the ...
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Bobby Duke Middle
School of the Year |
Bobby Duke Middle School has had 100% of its students take and complete the Governor’s Challenge for two years in a row. In 2007-2008 Bobby Duke Middle students recorded 26,000 active days. This year, their students re-doubled their fitness efforts and recorded over 100,000 active days, but their commitment to fitness goes well beyond the Challenge. Bobby Duke’s innovative approach to physical education focuses on activities students can continue throughout ...
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Warren High
School of the Year |
Warren High School had 2,342 students complete the Governor’s Challenge in 2009. Their physical education program has begun the transition from traditional sports to the standards-based approach. Ninth and tenth grade courses address developing proficient movement skills and expanding capabilities for independent learning, while elective courses in body composition, strength training and cardio-respiratory endurance are available to eleventh and twelfth grade students. The school offers a series of non-traditional activities ...
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Bay Area
Regional Award Winner |
San Martin Gwinn Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
With many students from a low socio-economic background, in recent years much publicized as being a ‘fast food’ culture, SMG has accepted the challenge of teaching our students to make consistently healthy food choices. Healthy eating is a new life habit ...
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Central Coast Area
Regional Award Winner |
Del Rey Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Teachers talk about the need for good nutrition in their classrooms, encouraging students to consider what they put in their bodies and how it will affect their energy level, physical health and their ability to think
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Central Valley
Regional Award Winner |
Golden Oak Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Our student population is approx. 90% Hispanic and eats traditional foods. Trying to change eating habits has been an ongoing struggle. We have worked to make them aware that they are at the highest risk for childhood Obesity. We continually work to ...
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Desert Sierra
Regional Award Winner |
Agua Caliente Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
The nutrition and health component of a physically fit student is important at our school. The majority of our students come from low income homes and all, but eleven students, qualify for the free or reduced lunch program, which ensures that ...
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Gold Coast
Regional Award Winner |
Robert J. Frank Intermediate submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
The Governor’s Challenge has motivated a systemic change on our campus to improve healthy eating for our entire learning community. An in-depth statistical examination of our student population at R. J. Frank Intermediate caused us to realize the need for extraordinary ...
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Gold Country
Regional Award Winner |
Hickman Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Early in the 2008-2009 school year, Hickman Elementary School made a commitment to promote healthy eating on our school campus. Our school cafeteria made the commitment to provide free, fresh fruit during snack time to the entire student body on a daily ...
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Los Angeles
Regional Award Winner |
Charles W. Eliot Middle submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Eliot promotes healthy eating through a back to basics mindset, “You are what you eat; eat well to be well.” For years, Eliot was strewn with crumpled bags of Hot Cheetos, empty Coke bottles, half eating pizza slices and candy rappers ...
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North Coast
Regional Award Winner |
Cobb Mountain Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Eating healthy is learned by students in our ever-expanding school garden. Volunteers help students raise organic vegetables and fruits from seed. Like characters in the Little Red Hen, students enjoy planting, tending, preparing, and eating organic lettuce, radish, carrots, peas, asparagus, and ...
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Orange
Regional Award Winner |
Columbus Tustin submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Among health advancements made in previous years, our school continues to endorse healthy foods on campus. Students are provided with superior alternatives, such as fruits and vegetables included with every meal. In addition, our school cafeteria has traded fried chips, whose high quantity ...
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Sierra Cascade
Regional Award Winner |
Bella Vista Elementary submitted the following three essays for consideration of the Governor's Challenge Competition Grand Prize:
Essay 1 - Commitment to Promoting Healthy Eating on Campus
Studies show that nutrition is one essential factor for students to achieve their full academic potential, growth, and well-being. For these reasons, Bella Vista School is dedicated to promoting healthy eating habits and nutritional education. Our goal is to educate our students ...
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