Offering a School and Daycare Award is an opportunity to recognize schools and daycares that are working hard to support their participants in choosing healthy foods and beverages.

The Drop the Pop School and Daycare Award will:

• Recognize targeted, collaborative and innovative efforts of schools/daycares that promote healthy eating and healthy drink choices;
• Recognize school/daycare initiatives that encourage and celebrate healthy eating;
• Gather information about great projects that have been successful in order to share these successes with other schools/daycares.

To be eligible for an award (based on population), you must complete and return the Drop the Pop Activity Report Form by March 9, 2012.

Four School awards and one daycare award will be presented this year.  Your school/daycare needs to apply to be eligible.  There will be:

One prize of $750 for daycares
One prize of $1000 for schools
  with between 0-49 students
One prize of $1500 for schools
  with between 50-100 students
One prize of $2000 for schools
  with between 101 and 200 students
One prize of $2500 for schools
  with more than 200 students.