CYCLE Kids

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CYCLE Kids is a non-profit educational organization based out of Cambridge, MA that focuses on using bicycles as a means of educating children about their own health and wellness through exercise and eating right.
Since their startup in 2004, CYCLE Kids has provided over 4,000 children with the life skills to fight childhood obesity. By incorporating this eight week program into gym classes, CYCLE Kids provides children with an understanding of the significance of physical fitness and eating “every day foods” as well as builds their self-esteem and encourages relationship-building with public officials.
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History
CYCLE Kids was started in 2004 by founder Julianne Idlet when she realized the growing need for a children's fitness program. It was her research on Type II Diabetes in children, formerly known as “adult-onset diabetes”, that caused her to create CYCLE Kids. Julie saw teaching children how to ride bikes as an opportunity to give them skills they would be able to use for the rest of their lives. She left her corporate job in hopes of creating a company that would be beneficial to her society. For the past six years, she's been working hard at spreading the message of CYCLE Kids and the program is now spreading from Boston to New York.
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Mission
CYCLE Kids' mission is to engage children in physical activity through bicycling in order to address the health and emotional issues that face today's overweight or under-active youth. By encouraging students to exercise and making it fun for them, they become more confident, curious and independent. CYCLE Kids believes that these skills will ultimately benefit the children later in life.
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Program
CYCLE Kids focuses on implementing their eight week program into physical education classes and after school programs for students grades 4-6. Each program provides a school with ten bicycles, twenty-five helmets, twenty-five student workbooks, twenty-five teacher/parent workbooks, and teacher training. With over fifteen programs in the Boston area, CYCLE Kids has had a 100% retention rate from year to year after the program has been instilled.

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