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The American Horsepower Challenge Rides Again!

by Amy Acton on November 20, 2009 · Comments

AHPC winners

AHPC winners

 
The American Horsepower Challenge, sponsored by The Humana Foundation, kicked off the second heat of the competition on Nov.16.  1,465 middle school students are participating in the challenge running from Nov. 16 – Dec. 11, 2009, and Jan. 11 – Feb. 5, 2010.  The Humana Foundation will once again award grant monies for school wellness activities or services to the top five schools with the highest average step count. The competition is designed to show participants how easily physical activity can be worked into their daily schedules.
Hula hoop contest

Hula hoop contest

 
Students in 61 middle schools from Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, South Dakota, Florida, Montana, Oregon, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Arizona, Arkansas, Virginia and Louisiana will be wearing a pedometer, which automatically uploads steps into an online game.
AHPC winning schools

AHPC winning schools

The following Pennsylvania middle schools won the first challenge of the competition that ended May 29:
  • Midland
  • Deer Lakes
  • Franklin Regional
  • Hopewell Memorial
  • Beaver Falls

A ceremony acknowledging these schools and participating students was held on Oct. 26 in Beaver Falls, Pa. The Humana Foundation presented each school with a check representing their portion of the grant.  State Rep. Jason Altmire attended the event, congratulating the students for placing first ahead of 19 other congressional districts.

AHPC award ceremony

AHPC award ceremony

The winning schools walked 14.8 million steps or 5,637 miles. This is the equivalent of burning 253,000 calories or 873 slices of pepperoni pizza. This is also the equivalent of walking from Philadelphia, Pa., to Austin, Texas, two times!
Congratulations to all schools who participated in the spring challenge and best of luck to every student logging steps to compete in the fall and winter heats of The American Horsepower Challenge!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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DISCLAIMER ALERT: The ideas expressed in this post came out of my own head, were researched by my own eyes and were expressed by my own hands. They are not intended to serve as medical advice in any way, shape or form. And they do not reflect the views of Humana Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. I take full responsibility if you think this post is awesome or not awesome.

Crumple It Up on Alltop

by Chris Hall on February 9, 2009 · Comments

Guy Kawasaki is great at both sharing and inspiring new thinking, which ties into the Crumple It Up mission rather nicely. As a matter of fact, Guy spoke at Humana in June 2007 as part of the Live Humana campaign, where he touched on the definitive nature of great products and services via his DICEE acronym:

 
Deep
Intelligent
Complete
Elegant
Emotive
 
That is why it’s awesome to be able to announce that the Crumple it Up blog is one of the featured sites on Guy’s health.alltop.com. Alltop is an "online magazine rack" of popular topics. On Alltop, you get the five newest posts from the top blogs in just about any category. You can click directly on post links, or scroll over them to get a pop-up preview of the post before you determine whether or not you want to click through. So, the design is intuitive; but what sets Alltop apart from other internet directories is the "Guy Kawasaki Factor." Alltop works differently from other search engines, because it’s not solely based on algorithms. These sites have been handpicked. Check out this graphic to see how Alltop differs from Google as an information source.
 
With around 200 blogs related to health, Alltop’s health page makes it really easy to find something cool and innovative going on in the world of health to spread around and stimulate conversation. Like this post on the first live-tweeted surgery or this one on outsmarting destructive impulses after a two minute scan of Health on Alltop.
 
It takes almost no time at all to find good stuff on Alltop because it’s all good stuff. And we’re glad to be a part of it!

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DISCLAIMER ALERT: The ideas expressed in this post came out of my own head, were researched by my own eyes and were expressed by my own hands. They are not intended to serve as medical advice in any way, shape or form. And they do not reflect the views of Humana Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. I take full responsibility if you think this post is awesome or not awesome.