Iowa Department of Education

The Iowa Department of Education’s Team Nutrition Program and the State of Iowa Youth Advisory Council are sponsoring a symposium to identify the problems and suggest solutions that make sense to Iowa high school students on how to improve healthy school environments, communities and their own personal eating and physical activity habits.  Being a leader for change and a role model to others will be emphasized.

The symposium will empower select youth with tools and resources to return to their schools and take action steps to improve the health environment.  The symposium will be November 19th at the Memorial Union at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.  School teams will offer insighful views on how best to address this age group’s health habits in a day that is packed with great inforamtion and a lot of interaction/participation via keypad polling.  Diana Reed, former Miss Iowa will speak on “Exercise Your Character”.

Twenty high schools from across the state of Iowa with a SIYAC member, are recruting  teams of 4 to attend with one adult advisor.   They will also have the opportunity to apply for a mini-grant worth up to $500 to activate a nutrition and physical activity program in their school.  Mileage for one vehicle and a faculty substitue stipend of up to $100 for each school team will be provided.

 Agenda

Please call or email Patti Delger, Team Nutrition Project Director at 515-281-5676 or patti.delger@iowa.gov for more information.

Over the past several years SIYAC has been supported by the Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development, helping support state-wide projects impacting youth.This year SIYAC, whose 15 members are from all parts of the state, has partnered with the Department of Education’s Team Nutrition to host a “Youth for a Healthy Iowa” symposium. SIYAC members have recruited teams of students and adult advisors from their schools and other high schools in their communities to participate and address challenging health issues facing Iowa’s youth. Additional information can be found on SIYAC's website. http://www.icyd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=73.