Exciting things happening in H&F

The beginning of this year (2008) has given us some excitement in Health & Fitness.

First, thanks to Ms. Mosqueda, the school has been participating in the California Governor's Challenge. We have received an award for one of the regional schools in Los Angeles. We will be receiving a $1,000 grant for our efforts and have been moved to the next round. If we continue to show that the students are active a minimum of 4 days a week for at least 30 minutes a day we can still win more money for our Health & Fitness program.

Check out the Governor's Fitness Challenge for more information

Second, we have received funds from a FEDCO grant (from Cal Poly Pomona) to purchase pedometers for our classes. We now have two brand new class sets to use in Health & Fitness. We will be completing some lessons and projects to fulfill the grant funding.

Check out the Walk 4 Life web site for information about the new pedometers.

Third, we have an upcoming event on April 19, 2008. If we are able to have 65 people from SJEA attend this event the Health & Fitness department will receive a grant for equipment. Any student, teacher, staff, faculty, parent and other community members are able to participate and count towards our 65 people. The more people we get to sign up for school the more money we can win.

Check out the Fitness Challenge Web Site for the California Speedway Challenge.
You can register here if you'd like to attend and register online. The cost is FREE!!!

Lastly, we've submitted our school for a grant from Hamburger Helper. They have a community grant that is designed to help hometowns. The grant proposal is for $15,000 to purchase heart rate monitors for students. This funding will allow us to purchase one class set, fitness testing center, pocket PC for downloading information, training and maintenance for the heart rate monitors.

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