Health and Well Being Final Update

My action plan is winding down so this is my final update for my health and well being global goal. To recap, I helped global health by fundraising for mosquito nets to stop the spread of malaria. The fundraising buy-out volleyball game raised $800 for Spread the Net. Next, I helped local well-being at Twin Lakes Secondary School by forming the Student Mental Health Committee to help mental health at our school. We started Wellness Wednesdays which later turned into Feel Good Fridays. We created a calm space in the Hub for people to de-stress. This endeavour was not successful however, because no one came, even after extensive promotion around the school. The SMHC decided to stop Feel Good Fridays but continued to help mental health by helping promote mental health week and encouraging people to sign the pledge to get loud about mental health. I still wanted to do something bigger to help the health of my local community, so I decided to help plan our school's Big Bike team. Big Bike is a giant bike that you ride to stop traffic for heart health and fundraise for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. I recruited our team members and on a bright sunny day we rode the Big Bike and raised $2615 as a team. I am super proud of our team. I am also proud of myself for all the ways I  supported my global goal. Throughout my action plan I was also tweeting ways to stay healthy. The only thing left to do for me is to keep tweeting, and help the SMHC create an action plan for next year. I had a great time helping people stay healthy.

-Rideau Haskins
@tlssglblhealth 

Colour Run & BBQ

This is an update on our groups project. A lot has changed and we have had a few difficulties but the colour run is still on. We have teamed up with Mr. Alexanders class to do the colour run as well as doing a BBQ at lunch. The funds are going to be split between Mrs. Shaw's baby's surgery and the organization Caring Partners Global. These two different events are both on June 9th and we are hoping for a beautiful day and a great turn out.

We are approaching the final days of the global goal project.

Recently I began the power point presentation on the global goal.
I have now collected six full garbage bags from my street cleaning.

I also had a small bottle drive that was not successful in the grand scheme. But on my garbage collecting walks I made $6 from littered beer cans.

Sarah C's Geo News: US teen died after drinking caffeine too quickly

BBC: US Teen Died after Drinking Caffeine Too Quickly

16 year old Davis Cripe of South Carolina USA Collapsed at his high school and later died after drinking a McDonald's latte, A large Mountain Dew and an energy drink all in under 2 hours. Experts claim it was not the amount of caffeine that killed Cripe, but rather the short time in which he drinked them. Cripe had no health problems prior to this occurrence. Those involved say people can learn from this to monitor their use of caffeine simular to how one would cigarettes or alcohol.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39932366

Big Bike Success

On May 10 a team of grade 12s and teachers from Twin Lakes SS rode the Heart and Stroke Big Bike across Orillia to raise money and awareness for heart health. We raised $2615 and had such a fun time. I organized the event as part of my global goal of Health and Well being. The Heart and Stroke Foundation helps the health of people locally and nationally and I was glad to support them.

Local: Locally I have picked up three more garbage bags full of trash over the last few weeks.

Global:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/03/04/the-countries-winning-the-recycling-race-infographic/&refURL=https://www.google.ca/&referrer=https://www.google.ca/
An article I found about recycling various materials and how they are being implemented, how we could implement them.

Colour me Twin

Colour me Twin is slowly coming together. We sadly only have two schools that have said yes to come so far but we are hoping to hear from schools who have not responded yet, soon. We are in the planning stages of what is officially going to happen on May the 30th. We will have our 2.5 km run followed by a BBQ and a handful of activities for the students to enjoy. We are finding our final method for creating our powdered paint that will be tossed at people in order to make them colourful. We're really proud of what we have accomplished and are very happy with the businesses that have donated to us and super thankful. Thank you to everyone who is helping this come together.

Last week I participated in the Twin Lakes garbage pickup. The whole school participated in cleaning up the neighborhood around the school. I was able to fill one of the large garbage bags by myself.

Global connections:  http://www.livescience.com/58874-peoples-climate-march.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170427091732.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170425182132.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/earth-and-environment/
I find it disconcerting that the first five or so articles in a supposedly scientific journal (above) are to do with the U.S.A's leadership trying to tear down every environmental law there is.