Students Bring Nutrition Education to Children
April 16, Brandon Krebs,’09, and Ashley Hall,’09 (above), took their commitment to nutrition education to an important segment of the population, children. The two students in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics organized a health fair for children at St. Bridget’s School in Framingham as a project in Professor Janet Schwartz’s Community Nutrition class.
Their aim was to show middle school students that too much snacking at the movies is not healthy. Hall and Krebs designed the project to get through to their young audience. “We bought three movie passes to an AMC theater and raffled them off to the groups of kids as an incentive to pay attention,” explained Hall.
“I think I learned as much as the students,” says Krebs. “This event showed me how capable I am of teaching these kids something useful using the skills and information I’ve learned.”
Hall also felt well equipped to reach out to the community: “Along with the many factual things we learn in class, the faculty prepare us for situations like the St. Bridget’s fair. The program is set up in a unique way that combines academic knowledge with hands on experience which gets students ready to enter all different sectors of the nutrition world.”