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Washington D.C. Survey Results
Survey Mailed in February 2003
EVENT: Cabot Calcium Crisis Challenge - Big Bones Bash Event - The Natural History Museum, Smithsonian
October 26, 2002
SURVEY GOALS:
- To understand if the Challenge program made a sustained difference in choices participants make about foods they eat.
- To learn what worked and what didn't for students and teachers during the entry process and at the event.
NUMBERS:
Among 70 finalist entries, 300 surveys were distributed. 35% were returned
from 96 students and 11 teachers.
10 out of 22 schools/organizations were represented in the survey response.
- 88% indicated that the Cabot Calcium Crisis Challenge made
a difference in personal eating habits, importantly:
- 59% increased milk consumption
- 51% increased eating cheese and yogurt.
- 40% think more about the nutritional value of what they are eating
- About 20% volunteered that they eat few 'junk foods'
- 36% indicated that family eating habits have become
more healthy
Stated families eating more foods with calcium and eating
more dairy products.
- 21% said that friends were eating better
Including more cheese, more milk, and more yogurt and eating less nutritionally
vacant foods.
- 55% of the Teachers talk about more calcium needs and eat
healthier lunches themselves.
- Here is what kids say 4 months later:
- Mom eats more cheese
- My whole family drinks more milk
- My brother eats less junk food
- We are all eating more healthy
- We finish our milk at lunch
- I see more students eating cheese and yogurt
- We eat more food with Calcium
- What did kids like best about the challenge?
- I got to have fun and be creative while
learning
- The fact that my whole family got into it
- It was fun
- I liked the museum and seeing the other projects
- That I made a video with my friend
- It was fun
- The many different people that joined
- It was fun to work with our friends and learn
new stuff
- Having a variety of projects to choose from
- The chance to do something fun
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