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The Calcium Challenge gave my students an opportunity to ask questions on their own which led to discovery and because of it, retain the information they learned.

- Sheri Werner, Art Teacher, New Boston Public Pilot School, Dorchester, Massachusetts

Our girls and their families have become more aware of calcium-rich food and are offered more of these foods at mealtimes as their parents’ awareness has increased.

-Arlene Swan-Mahony, MHA, RN, Patriots Trail Girls Scout Troup Leader, Rosindaler, Ma.

The Calcium Challenge exhibits showed that these students have worked hard to understand the benefits of calcium to their bones. I was impressed by their ability to express the facts and the science they learned in the process.

-Bruno Frohlich, BBB Judge, Forensic Scientist NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

This (activity) is a great segue into the topics I was planning to cover in Media class, and I can definitely incorporate this into the lessons I'm planning for Public Speaking class. I'm thinking I'll probably make this a required in-class project for every one of my 6th and 7th grade classes. -- It's tough to write a curriculum, but it makes it much easier when there are incentives for the students-- it gets them to invest themselves in the learning.

-Katie Quackenbush, Media Arts teacher, Milton Pierce School, Milton, Massachusetts.

As a result of the Calcium Challenge and Big Bones Bash experience, we have incorporated more education about calcium intake in our cafeteria menus and plan to use the activity with our middle school science classes doing our own Big Bone Bash events for the community.

- Maureen McKenna, Science Teacher, Broad Meadows Middle School, Quincy, Massachusetts.