Ali Meyers  Evergreen High School Evergreen, CO  Project
Description:  “Creating a Healthy Lifestyle” is Meyers’ creative
program idea designed to help students realize the importance of
eating right, exercising, and keeping a consistent sleep
pattern. The program mixes science and health in a long-term
experiment that documents students’ activity, sleep patterns,
and diet. Utilizing the Jawbone Up bracelet, along with iPhone
and iPad apps, students will document their activities and diet
for a week. During that week, they will initially get baseline
data such as height, weight, activity level, typical caloric
intake, sleep patterns, and overall health. After they analyze
the initial data, they will use that information to create goals
to improve their activity levels, diet, and sleep patterns. They
will then use the Jawbone Up for two more weeks, analyzing and
comparing their baseline data to the new data to determine if
they achieved their goals or if they need to make additional
changes to their diet, slee