Fire Up Your Feet Challenge Earns $6,000 in Metro Atlanta Schools

Fire up your feet for school!

Seven schools in metro Atlanta took home awards in the Fire Up Your Feet challenge that promotes physical activity and wellness programs. It tracks the physical activity of school students, staff and their families and even gives schools resources to fund-raise in a healthy way. Launched in 2013, the program encourages contributors to stay driven in a fun and friendly environment. It even takes place in eight states and the District of Columbia.

People that participate do so by keeping record of their physical activity during the month-long challenge. The Fire Up Your Feet online tracker keeps note of all of the progress that they make. Awards for the program include most overall participating, highest weekly activity tracking numbers, most walking, most bicycling and more.

More than $290,000 has been awarded to participating schools since Fire Up Your Feet started. The program not only unites the school community and gets everyone focused on the goal of healthy minds and bodies, but participants also get regular physical activity, which is extremely good for them.

Being such an engaging program, it gets parents, students, teachers and school staff more physically active before, during and after school. It also encourages walking schools bus programs, the purchase of bike racks, traffic safety countermeasures to help promote more walking and biking, incentives for Walking Wednesdays, safety vests and more.

The top prize was $2,150 awarded in metro Atlanta, and the winner was Morrow Elementary School in Clayton County. But, they weren’t the only school to win cash prizes. Six other ones won:

The next Fire Up Your Feet Activity Challenge will take place on October 1-31, 2015 and welcomes any K-8 public, private or charter school in metro Atlanta to participate. Sign up at www.fireupyourfeet.org.