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Success Stories from Across the Nation

Fuel Up to Play 60 is making a positive mark on students and schools across the country. Fuel Up to Play 60 provides tools and resources that help students interact creatively with the program while adopting healthy eating habits and getting at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

Through it all, Fuel Up to Play 60 is collecting inspirational stories from participating students and schools to share and inspire. Read through recent success stories below.

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    Etheridge Students Help Form Healthy Cafeteria Menus

    Etheridge Elementary School in Etheridge, TN has a goal to bring new and nutritious foods into their lunch program for students to try. If students like them, they can have them more often. Each month a Fuel Up to Play 60 family works together to come up with a nutritious and healthy dish or whole menu.

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    Harding Elementary Pumps Up Participation to the Next Level

    Fuel Up to Play 60 began at Harding Elementary in Erie, Pennsylvania as a new and exciting opportunity to encourage students to eat healthier and exercise more. However, the benefits far exceeded their original goals for the program. Harding Elementary was so excited to be a part of Fuel Up to Play 60 again this

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    Program Advisor Kim Morrissey Nominated for Kansas State Teacher of the Year

    Kim Morrissey, Program Advisor and P.E. teacher at Dodge Literacy Magnet School in Wichita, Kansas, won the district-level nomination for State Teacher of the Year for 2011. Her style of teaching comes from wanting to help kids who are not athletic – to be active, do their best and have a good time doing so.

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    Atuwfa Muhammad Wins First Program Advisor Activation Reward!

    Students at James G. Blaine Elementary School in Philadelphia meet before school each Friday morning and are greeted by teachers with a “high five,” followed by the P.E. teacher leading them through a round of exercises. Cheerleaders deliver a “Fuel Up to Play 60″ message, and get the word out about the program and the

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    Fuel Up to play 60 Makes a Difference in the “Unhealthiest” City in the Nation

    My name is Lisa Riley, and I’m from Huntington, West Virginia, the city that was labeled the unhealthiest city in the nation by the Center for Disease Control. I teach at Enslow Middle School, a small school of about 285 students, with 87% of them receiving free or reduced lunches. We were the school that

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