CONTEST: How to Create Super-Healthy Schools

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Students consume up to half their daily calories at school.

WATCH and VOTE for new Salud America! #SaludHeroes who push healthy food and physical activity at school by April 29, 2016, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope!

#SaludHeroes at school are:

School Navigators. Rocio Muñoz helped embed bilingual, bicultural health navigators to increase parents’ access to health services into elementary schools in Corvallis, Ore.

Breakfast is Back. Michaelie Love, a high-schooler in San Antonio, Texas, worked with her school to get a cart to make eating breakfast easy, healthy and cool.

BMX Fun. School principal Doug Johnson used biking and a sweet BMX trail to make physical activity fun for elementary students in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.

Health for Kids, By Kids. Sarita Damaraju and other middle-schoolers started a health program for elementary students in Corpus Christi, Texas—once the nation’s “fattest” city.

Beans, Beans, Beans. What great about beans? Washington State University researchers have the answer in a new bean-based garden curriculum for K-12 students in Washington.

Move 60. Two P.E. teachers developed before-and-after school programs to help elementary students reach 60 minutes of daily activity at Edmonds School District in Washington.

The #SaludHeroes with the most votes from April 14-29, 2016, will be announced in an email and a social media messages from Salud America! by May 6, 2016.

Go here to vote, enter the random drawing, and see contest rules.

Salud America! is a Latino childhood obesity network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Salud America! runs a periodic video voting contest.