This is Walk-N-Roll to School Week, in which Pima County encourages students to use active transportation to get to school during the first week of October.
The purpose “is to promote active ways to get to school, such as walking, biking, scootering, skateboarding or rollerblading in order to reduce congestion and emissions from motor vehicles near schools,” the county’s website says. The Oct. 2-6 event “also promotes physical fitness, builds community, and inspires families to use their feet more often for their school commute.”
The promotion is held annually in thousands of schools around the U.S. in celebration of National Walk to School Week.
Students from participating schools in Pima County receive gifts, bike-safe reflective decals, stickers and pencils. Also, each school gets a scooter to offer as a grand prize in a drawing. Registration for the week’s events closed on Sept. 22.
Hosts are the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality and the county Health Department. For more information, see pima.gov/565/Walk-N-Roll-to-School.
Tips on safe walking and biking for students are available at the Safe Routes to Schools website, saferoutestucson.org/riders-walkers-program.
Schools can also request presentations on safety tips by emailing saferoutes@livingstreetsalliance.org.
Marana Unified School District, in one local example, is promoting Walk-N-Roll to School Week on its home page and says these schools are participating all or part of this week: Coyote Trail Elementary, Dove Mountain CSTEM K-8, DeGrazia Elementary, Estes Elementary, Gladden Farms Elementary, Twin Peaks K-8 and Quail Run Elementary.
UA-bound Sunnyside seniors
Sunnyside High School says its 168 seniors “and counting” admitted to the University of Arizona rank the school as “the number one spot in the nation for number of high school seniors to apply and be admitted to the UA.”
The high school, UA’s Wilbur the Wildcat mascot and the UA Office of Undergraduate Admissions celebrated those college-bound seniors in a “Cats Day” assembly Sept. 26.
“Desert View High School, also in Sunnyside District, currently holds the number three spot in the nation” for a single high school’s number of seniors admitted to UA, the district said in a news release.
Desert View’s 119 admitted seniors, so far, were congratulated at a similar event on Sept. 21.
Tucson College and Career Night
Tucson Unified School District will host a College & Career Night on Oct. 17, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Tucson Convention Center.
Colleges from around the United States will talk to students and parents, answer questions and hand out materials, TUSD says on its website.
There is no charge for admission or parking for students and parents who attend.
Prior to the event, TUSD asks those who want to attend to register for a barcode at Strive Fair registration, strivescan.com.
“At the event, show your barcode to colleges who will scan it to send you more information about their schools. The day after the fair, you will receive a report with information on colleges with whom you scanned.”
For more information, visit tusd1.org/tucson-college-night or call 520-225-6211.
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