From April 22 (Earth Day) to May 17 (Bike to Wherever Day), every school day will be a WNR day!! We are doing a little friendly competition between classes to walk/roll the most. We will also track the total distance walked/rolled and CO2 emission savings by the students!
There will be class prizes and individual rewards. To make things equitable, walking the 0.25 miles from Target counts as well! You can park 0.25 miles away from the school in any direction and it will count. Remember, this is an honor system!
We are planning to use the Active4.me website to track participation during this and future WnR events. A tag with a QR code will be sent with your child in the week of April 15th. Students will use this QR code to participate in the event every morning when they walk/roll to school during these 4 weeks. Please complete this registration form to help us get a correct estimate of the distance walked/rolled by students.
Optional: Parents can also sign up for notifications via email/text when their student reaches school. Please also check the FAQs at the bottom of this page.
If you have more questions, please email us at steindorf.walkandroll@gmail.com
Individual Rewards: Each student gets a special charm for reaching the below milestones during these 20 days:
- 1st trip (Dino Charm)
- 5 trips (Gummy bear charm)
- 10 trips (Duck Charm)
- 15 trips (Boba Drink Charm)
- All 20 trips (A double charm: A Horse + A pendant with an inspirational quote)
Class Prizes: Classes divided in 3 groups: (K-2), (3-5) and (6-8) to make it equitable.
The top class in each group (based on Avg # of trips/student) gets an ice cream party.
A big THANK YOU to those that participated in the WNR Marathon! The students collectively did ~3700 miles (that is the distance from Steindorf to Alaska!! ) and avoided ~3400 pounds of carbon. Over 70% of you participated and we averaged over 200 participants per day! And, most importantly, we did it safely! We hope you are inspired to continue Walking and Rolling to school!
The winning classes that won an ice cream party:
- 6-8th grade: Ms. Ava from 7th grade - Ruby Core
- 3-5 grade: Ms. Wilson from 5th grade
- K-2: Ms. Parameshwaran from Kindergarten
We hope you all had fun during the WNR Marathon! And please keep on walking and rolling rest of the school year, this summer and next fall
Periodic Walk/Bike Trains to School (led by parent volunteers every Thursday during the WnR Marathon):
● Walk/Bike from Butcher Park (Ross/Hallmark)
● Walk/Bike from Doerr Park (Custer/Potrero)
● Bike from Andoil gas station (Bascom/Woodard)
FAQs
A bunch of reasons:
- To promote Walking and Rolling to school in a fun way (friendly competition between classes)
- 4 weeks for forming good habits: There is an old saying that it takes 3 weeks of repetition to develop a good habit. Let us take it up a notch and do it for 4 weeks! 😊 Plus the 4 weeks fit perfectly between “Earth day” and “Bike to wherever day”
- Create awareness about the environmental impact of automotive pollution and safe practices when WNR to school.
- Make School parking lot and neighboring streets safer for our kids who walk/roll to school
- …. We could go on but hope you get the gist! 😊
To track student participation during WNR events. One cannot improve what one cannot measure. We need to get an accurate count of # of students participating, and this website/app is a safe and convenient way of doing it.
Registration is a one-time activity and has the following benefits:
- Parents can sign up for email notifications from the WNR team to get updates about this and any future WNR events. We have planned a bunch of events if there is enough interest in the parent community (eg: bike education for students, bike repair stations for minor repairs etc.)
- If your child walks/rolls to school on their own, parents can get a notification (email/text) when your child reaches school.
- It enables us to accurately calculate cumulative distance traveled by students and help us estimate CO2 savings as a group (another metric that we aim to track)
Registration is not mandatory but highly recommended. As mentioned in the other FAQs, it is absolutely safe w.r.t. privacy and helps us estimate accurately the cumulative distance walked/rolled by our students as a group.
If you still decide not to register, your child can still participate and get rewards. However, a default distance of 0.5 mi will be assigned to them.
This App is specifically designed to be used for WNR tracking. A lot of schools across the US use this app. It has also been reviewed by the district and approved for our School to use. We specifically mention not to provide any personally identifiable information (e.g.: real names of students) to maintain your family’s privacy. All that is asked is the distance of your child’s commute (to get a correct estimate of total distance traveled and CO2 saved).
Some privacy laws require us to get a physical signed consent form from parents when any personally identifiable information is used on an external website for kids under 13 yrs. If you use your child’s real name, you will need to submit a physical copy of the consent form to school, and the school will need to save it until we use the site. Due to the same reasons, the school district also suggested that we do not use Students’ real names and keep it anonymous.
Plus, we think it is more fun if children come up with cool names different from their own just for WNR
Yes, you can fix that. Just redo the registration again using the same Student ID (Barcode). It will overwrite all previous info. The only thing is you will need to use a new username. If you would like to keep the same username, you can email us at steindorf.walkandroll@gmail.com with your username and correct distance and we will update it in the system for you.
Yes, we are able to update it. There are 2 ways to do this:
1. Re-submit the registration form with the username that you would like to use (dont forget to use the correct student ID for matching).
2. Email us the username that you would like, and student ID of your child(ren) and we can do it at our end.
This happens because we approved your student's account already since we did not have time to wait for the consent form. Please reach out to us at steindorf.walkandroll@gmail.com and we can work out the next steps.
Unfortunately, the system does not allow back dated trips.
If they remember their student ID, they can ask the scanning volunteer to enter it manually in the app. It is the same as scanning the QR code.
You can request a replacement tag by submitting a simple request here: https://forms.gle/8vy765yRPAh9XaA58