Back to the Future - Walking to School
Get kids to walk and/or ride bikes to and from school everday, like we did as kids. Most elementary students today are driven to and from school. Make the route safe and many more kids would walk/ride.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Casey
Last Name
Wimsatt
Website
School or Organization
Symbionica, LLC
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
School/Organization Name
Symbionica, LLC
School/Organization Website
School/Organization Phone
408-834-4460
School/Organization Address
882 Pine Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
School/Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Are you a
Parent
How does your innovation currently get kids (or how might it get kids) engaged in physical activity? How would your idea or project potentially be implemented during the school day?
Expand/extrapolate a crossing guard program to a "safe route to school" program, where retirees are stationed every mile??? along major routes - analagous to support stations in a marathon, say - along major foot and bike routes to and from school. Kids would be safe to walk and/or ride their bikes everyday to school, like most of us did from a very early age as kids. Save gas. Get Exercise. No change to the school day :-). Create jobs at a relatively small cost :-).
Name Your Project
Back to the Future - Walking to School
How many children does this program currently or plan to serve? How much time does each child spend daily/weekly engaged in physical activity? (150 words max)
Many millions of elemetnary school students nationwide, plus half again as many middle school and high school students. At the elementary level in San Jose, I would estimate that 90 to 95% of the kids are driven to and from school. That means the potential for change is quite large.
In our school district, San Jose Unified, there are 32000 students and if 25% particpated in the first year, that would benefit 8000 students in our district alone.
Describe Your Idea
Get kids to walk and/or ride bikes to and from school everday, like we did as kids. Most elementary students today are driven to and from school. Make the route safe and many more kids would walk/ride.
Tell us the story behind the social innovator. (150 words max)
I've created FaceSay (www.FaceSay.com), a set of three PC games that target improving social interactions on the playground through increased awareness of the features and movements of the face, particularly around the eyes. FaceSay is the only technology intervention to show in an RCT (n=49, currently out for review at Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders) improved social interactions for autistic school aged students 6-14 during their normal playground interactions with peers, where it counts.
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