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Strong Start to 2012!
The FitWit Foundation ended 2011 with great numbers. Over 150 people attended our 4th Annual End of Year Banquet Fundraiser—our largest to date. The event raised over $5,400. With end-of-year donations and the two-day FitWit fundraiser camp, we raised over $9,200 in December!
Special thanks to Six-Feet Under and Zoo Atlanta for their support of the Banquet. For those of you who made monetary donations, thank-you letters will be going out on 18 January.
Our next FitTeens program begins on 13 February 2012 at Maynard H. Jackson High School. This will be our 8th program at Maynard Jackson! We are super excited to be partnering with Cooking Matters for two hours each week, teaching teens how to make healthy food choices, and cook meals and snacks for themselves, their families and friends.
We still need plenty of support to have a successful program. In particular, we need the following:
- Bottled waters
- Low-calorie sports drinks
- Yoga mats
- New water bottles
- Sports bras in sizes L, XL, XXL (we are set on other sizes)
- Volunteers for workouts, 3:35-4:435pm on Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri
- Volunteers for cooking class, 3:35-5:35pm on Wed.
Please contact our program director Michelle Woods at michelle@fitwit.com to volunteer or If you can help with any of the above items. You can also bring donated items to your FitWit camp and give them to Amy, Stacy, Josh, Michelle or Ben.
Thank you for all your support of The FitWit Foundation!
Give Fit!
Watch the FitTeens Banquet Video.
A couple of Winners for the Week
Jackson FitTeens just made it to the halfway mark! Three great weeks of effort and fitness, by both students AND teachers. On the ends, Michelle and Lindsay of the Foundation and Ms Allen and Daresha D.- campers of the week winners! The Jackson program continues through Oct 21st and will end with an amazing awards banquet on Saturday Oct 22nd at 5pm. Congrats to Ms Allen and Daresha!
FitTeens Conquer New Adventures at Winshape!
The Foundation successfully completed their first overnight fitness and team building retreat at Winshape Wildernss facilities on Sept 10 & 11th. Eighteen fitteens conquered new heights- literally- and received some in depth fitness basics from Foundation trainers. Jackson FitTeens now goes into six weeks of fitness, with the momentum and pride of Winshape success under their belts:)
FitTeens 2011 at DHS!!
It has begun- an incredible first week of FitTeens at Decatur High School. This is a record for the Foundation and DHS- an impressive 42 on the roster! Just as newbies do, the teens/teachers/staff have begun to master those prized exercises: push ups, sit ups, squats, superheroes- all with smiles (mostly) on their faces!
This teen camp runs from Feb 21- April 1st 2011. We are so grateful for an amazing school system in which to conduct these programs! If you have a day to volunteer or simply want to come and cheer a teen on, email michelle@fitwit.com.
Thanks to DHS administration, great teachers, and the entire FitWit Nation for making all this work and work well!
FitTeens Retreat
Recruiting began 16 Aug at Jackson H.S.! We’re headed to Winshape Wilderness (be sure to watch the video) for our retreat in Mount Berry, GA on 10 Sep. In addition to getting our first two workouts in, our team will experience the ropes course and team building challenges. Our kids are going to love this!
Dates Set for FitTeens at M.H. Jackson High School
We’re getting pumped for our next FitTeens program at M.H. Jackson High School. This will be our 7th program at Jackson and the first program of our new model. The new model includes a weekend retreat to kick-off the program and two seasons of FitTeens at the same school in one school year. Bottom line: we are increasing our our contact time with the kids to over 100 hours–more than 4 times our previous FitTeens programs! (Locations for retreat and banquet are still TBD, but the prospects are super cool!)
Retreat: Sat/Sun 10-11 Sep
First Day of Camp: Mon, 12 Sep
Last Day of Camp: Fri, 21 Oct
Banquet: Sat, 22 Oct
We’re looking for volunteers for any and all FitTeens activities. Hit up Michelle Woods (michelle@fitwit.com) for more info.
A Fitness Warrior
Not even a little bloodshed could stop the fitness today. Brentavius of the Study Hall didn’t shed one tear and even showed his fitness warrior side after a long FitWit battle of TugOWar. Brentavius’s advice: Buck up- fitness is worth it:)
Your support; their faces!
Thanks to the FitWit Nation and so many other supporters of the Foundation, many smiling and proud faces abound! Hilton and Elijah, who have completed their “ABC” push ups- forwards and backwards, now show the universal sign of strength! And take a look at many more smiling faces in our clap up after some fitness fun!
Summer, Kids & Fitness!
The FitWit Foundation doesn’t slow down with the end of school semesters; we officially kicked off our FitKids Summer Fitness program at the Study Hall on June 7th! The program will run through July 14th and we get to facilitate 76 kids, ages K-5th grade in some sunny fitness programs! For more information about the Foundation’s summer program or how to volunteer, please contact: michelle@fitwit.com.
And for more information on the programs and mission of the Study Hall, visit: www.thestudyhall.org
Josh speaks about FitWit at The Study Hall
Josh speaks to Witt Nation 2010 from Wittenberg University where Josh and Ben met. The footage was shot during our program with The Study Hall summer of 2010. This summer at The Study Hall, Michelle leads five trainers to bring fitness to 80 kids twice a week.