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In just three decades, obesity rates have more than tripled for children aged six to eleven. These kids then have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese adults. With significant cuts continuing to be made to physical education programs, the need for intervention is clear.
RUN! works by creatively incentivizing running to get students excited about physical fitness and to learn its value in their lives. Students get points for every lap they run over one mile and every time they beat their personal best in the mile. At the end of RUN!, each point becomes a raffle ticket entered into a drawing for prizes.
The all-inclusive RUN! boxes will make it easy for schools to use RUN! to reinvigorate their physical education curricula. In three weeks our pilot school saw a 232% increase in the number of miles run, 124 personal-best mile times beat and 1,988 laps run by 400+ students. All for the cost of a $50 iPod shuffle, proving that minimal intervention can have a huge impact.
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