Sunday, June 20, 2010

Outdoor Nation Youth Summit

I had the wonderful opportunity today to attend the Outdoor Nation Youth Summit in Central Park, NY. The event brought together youth from around the country to brainstorm ideas for engaging young people in the outdoors, healthy active living, and conservation. Members of Obamas cabinet attended OutdoorNation to bring back our top ideas to the president!
In a major effort to help bring some of our ideas/solutions to fruition the North Face and Camelbak have each announced major grant programs which individuals/organizations who have a program plan they think can engage youth with the outdoors should apply for @ www.explorefund.org.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Olympic Day @ RiversportOKC

Olympic day was awesome, lots of kids came out to try kayaking, rowing and other Olympic sports at the Chesapeake Boathouse today. This event helped to launch Ms Obamas Lets Move initiative in OKC. The US Secretary of Health, the Mayor of OKC and several Olympians came out to make it a special event for everyone!