Last month brought the 2018 Governor’s Fitness Awards. A day when we recognize the amazing efforts across Michigan of people, organizations, and communities. We were delighted to present a Lifetime Service Tribute to Kirk L. Steudle, Director of the Michigan Department of Transportation,  for his dedication to improving Michigan’s transportation infrastructure for all users. Starting his […]

The Michigan Fitness Foundation Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is excited to announce this year’s SRTS regional trainings.   These trainings will consist of hands-on sessions designed to help a community build or sustain a SRTS project. Each training will have a guest presenter sharing best practices and success stories from some of Michigan’s

The Michigan School Wellness Award aims to encourage schools statewide to create healthy school environments by establishing School Health Teams, completing the Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT) and implementing sustainable policy and environmental changes. The deadline to receive completed applications is midnight EST April 18, 2018. Find the application here, along with more information about the award. The

    Mini-grant applications are being accepted through March 2nd. You can find more information and apply here. Questions? Contact Adam Jenks, Program Coordinator, Ajenks@michiganfitness.org

We welcomed Adam Jenks to our team as the Program Coordinator this November. Adam comes to SRTS with experience in public education, working with students in youth engagement and empowerment programming. Before coming aboard, Adam worked as a social studies teacher at Battle Creek Central High School, serving as the lead advisor to the BCC

The Fall Fire Up Your Feet Challenge came to a close at the end of October with 21 Michigan schools and over 8,100 participants. These 21 communities logged over 453,826 miles and 147,629,000 minutes of physical activity. Students, families, and school staff at seven schools in Michigan collectively won cash awards mounting to over $5,000 in total

It’s a great opportunity to be reminded to watch out for pedestrians and bicyclists in the dark with the return to standard time on November 5th. Since it will get dark one hour earlier, non-motorized users will be much less noticeable after the time change is in effect. Research has found that the first hour of

This year’s Fall Fire Up Your Feet Challenge is taking off. The 20 schools in Michigan who have been actively tracking physical activity have been joined by 21 newly registered schools. This highlights that there is still time to register and join the challenge to track physical activity. To be eligible to earn prizes, schools

Despite on-and-off rain across the state, Michigan schools came out en masse to walk and bike to school on Wednesday, October 4th. This year we had 327 schools in Michigan participate with an estimation of over 65,000 K-8th grade students getting out to walk.