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ACES - All Children Exercise Simultaneously
ACES-with-a-Friend IDEA KIT

ACES With-a-Friend Quick Facts

ACES Stands For: All Children Exercise Simultaneously. The With-A-Friend designation encourages schools to invite parents and others to join the fun.
Mission: Bring attention to the importance of lifelong physical activity
When: Typically the 1st Wednesday in May, during National Fitness Week
Michigan Sponsors: Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports
Farm Bureau Insurance
Michigan Chairs:

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern

Originally Founded: 1989
Founder: Len Saunders, a New Jersey Physical Education teacher
Participants: All 50 states and more than 50 countries
Average Participation of Michigan Students & Schools
(past 3 years)
:         

Students: 409,049
Schools: 1,047

Counties: All 83 counties were represented in 2007

Record for Most Participants  in Individual State: 453,583 (Michigan, 2005)
Previous Record: 407,138 (Michigan, 2002)
Endorsements:

The President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

American Running and Fitness Association

 

“Dan and I have always stressed the importance of physical activity in our lives and the lives of our children—we'd lik to encourage all Michigan families to step up and get moving in 2008. ”

                  Governor Jennifer M. Granholm , ACES With-A-Friend Co-Chair, 2008

Link to Michigan Action for Healthy Kids

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