Students, Teachers and Coordinated School Health (CSH) Coordinators
Recognized for Their Efforts To Get Healthy and Active.

Funded by a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health through Project Diabetes,
GoTrybe, an online physical activity and health education tool, has been available
to approximately 175,000 students and faculty in seventeen school districts. These
school districts are located in GoTrybe’s home region of East Tennessee and every
year since GoTrybe’s inception, the homegrown program has offered rewards for its top
participants. GoTrybe’s student and teacher winners are chosen based on recording the highest levels of participation in fitness, while the CSH Coordinators are rewarded for the largest percentage of participating teachers in their respective district. As you might expect, the winners each year are people just like you and me that have made a decision to be active and strive for better health.

“We are very excited to reward those who have worked so hard, says Dr. Bill Joyner Co-Founder of GoTrybe. We are focused on making a positive impact and we’re glad to see students, teachers and the CSH Coordinators utilizing our unique program. We’re focused on GoTrybe being a useful, fun, healthy tool for getting fit and fighting childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes.”

GoTrybe has chosen to reward teachers and CSH Coordinators with gift cards to local retailers. We all know that teachers and coordinators are often spending out of their own pockets to fund supplies and activities for the students they serve—these rewards will go a long way to help with those types of expenditures. GoTrybe is also rewarding the students with technology prizes.

“Everything we do is in an effort to support an active lifestyle. We want all Trybers to enjoy being active and healthy because we see, not only the health benefits, but the impact that improved health can have on academics, says Dr. Joyner.”

Good health and improved academics go hand-in-hand and GoTrybe will continue to work with teachers and CSH Coorindators to give Tennessee students every opportunity to live well and excel in school.

Some of our GoTrybe Active Winners:

Teacher Winners:

$1000  1st Place-Beverly Lockhead (Knox Co.)

$750 2nd Place-Patrick Hurst (Knox Co.)

$500 3rd Place-Andie Breeden (Knox Co.)

$250 4th Place-Rachel Dunlap (Johnson City)

$100 5th Place-Lindsey McAllister (Knox Co.)

Coordinated School Health Winners:

$1000 1st Place-Aneisa McDonald (Knox Co.)

$750 2nd Place-Beth Cox  (Johnson City)

$500 3rd Place-Don Best (Sevier Co.)

$250 4th Place-Mary Beth Blevins (Blount Co.)

$100 5th Place-Erica Phillips (Hawkins Co.)

GoTrybe is an online, active community dedicated to the health and wellness of our youth. GoTrybe gets young people on the move by developing Active Screen Time™. “Trybers” can interact with fitness, nutrition, motivation and wellness content that supports their journey toward living healthfully. GoTrybe wants to be an inspiring force in the fight to get children and teens active while combating childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes.  Gotrybe.com is composed of three Trybes: ZooDoos, up to 5th grade, Trybe180, 6th-9th grade and Nextrybe, 10th-12th grade.

For more information on GoTrybe, contact Stephanie Thompson at 423-926-1583 or visit www.GoTrybe.com and GoTrybe’s blog at www.kidsfitnessblog.com.