National Outdoor Leadership School

nutritionally balanced meals mainly for students 18 years old and younger coming from low-income households during the summer months when the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are not in session. If a student is over the age of 18, they can only participate if they have some sort of physical and/or mental disability that is keeping them within the school district. The Summer Food Service Program started forty-seven years ago in 1968 just as a small pilot program but…

Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (P.L 111-296) under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The NSLP reauthorizes its program every five years and the latest policy update was the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010. This policy authorized funding for federal school meal programs and increased access to healthy food for low-income children. This policy required the one that came before it, to be revised and have all the new, improved changes implemented in schools. The policy impacted all…

lunch with healthy appetites and less urgency and are more likely to eat their fruits, vegetables, entree, and milk. Poor nutritional intake is linked to children’s difficulty to learn, and increased discipline problems.4 So as Registered Dietitians/ School Food Service Directors, it would be our concern to help improve the intake of these students, and a simple way to…

As you know, The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has come under critical examinations due to increase in the cost of public schools around the whole country. The National School Lunch Program is promoted by Michelle Obama, who is the first lady of the United States of America. This research will cover areas of this topic like how the National School Lunch Program affects a school’s budget, benefits of the National School Lunch Program, some concerns with the National School Lunch Program,…

The transition from high school to college, and college to society, is arguably one of the most important transitions made in life. College represents an important step in a person’s life; it represents the fact that the student is now entering the adult world. All the liberties which are thirsted for by every teenager, the responsibilities detested by adults, and everything in between are thrust upon the student. How well the students make the transition depends on how well they were prepared…

naturally inclined to leadership and helping others in group situations. My four years of high school have been spent not only in a classroom, but also out in front of my peers performing as an athlete. I have been involved in year-round sports, specifically, cheerleading and outdoor track and field. Over the course of freshman year, I soaked up as much information as I could to become both a better athlete and role model for both the girls on the team and students at my school. Sophomore year,…

The National Honors Society defines what it means to serve the student body as well as the community. As a student athlete in the Sutton school system leadership, service, character and scholarship have impacted my very way of life. Having a persistent attitude is what makes a student shine and as a prospective candidate for NHS I will incorporate this quality into each of the four pillars improving the society as a whole. Three years ago I began the NHS application process though I had little…

From my undergraduate career at Case Western Reserve University, where I studied Economics, I learned a lot about myself in an academic sense. I learned that I was good at understanding complex concepts introduced in these classes. I found that I had a very deep interest in finding out how the business world works, and how different analytical tools can used to make sense out of data collected from our society. The economics classes that I took, along with a healthy side of mathematics and…

many years Ijams Nature Center has been a beloved park. The Ijams family first offered Girl Scout camps back in 1923 and thousands of individuals and groups visited this special place during the 1920s through the 1970s. Since the 1980s, nearly every school-aged child in Knoxville and its surrounding counties has come to Ijams on a field trip. Hundreds of children have attended summer camp and learned to love and care for the earth. Thousands of visitors walk our trails annually and come to learn…

sport I find most interesting and enjoyable. Hunting, however, has not been the only activity that has kept me busy throughout high school. I have also participated in numerous school activities, performed community service, and held a few leadership positions within these events. Although these activities have kept me very busy, I have always made time to focus on my school work and prepare to commit myself to a post-secondary education. From the time I was legal to do so, hunting has always…