Oregon Walk + Bike to School, a partnership of health, safety, transportation and environmental organizations led by the BTA and Williamette Pedestrian Coalition, opened registration for elementary schools for Walk + Bike Challenge Month at walknbike.org.

Walk + Bike Challenge Month is a May event focused on elementary school students. In the style of the BCC, all over the Portland area, elementary students will be challenged to walk or bike to school as much as they can over the month of May. Once a week, a school champion will gather student scorecards and find out who’s walking and biking!

Not only will we find out what schools are walking and biking the most in Portland, but all the elementary schools will take on another group of students: Portland State University. For the whole month, PSU students will try to walk and bike more than all the elementary students in Portland.

In June, we’re throwing a party at PSU where we’ll announce the schools and students that walked or biked the most, hold a drawing for prizes, have slow bike races, and have other fun events!

This event can be as robust or as simple as suits your school. Oregon Walk + Bike provides

• posters
• small incentive items
• tips on making your event successful
• student scorecards

Every student that walks and bikes at each registered school is eligible for a prize drawing. The winning school will receive a free class of the BTA’s Award-Winning Bicycle Safety Education curriculum in the fall of 2008 (up to 32 students).

If you are interested in seeing Walk + Bike Challenge Month at your school or learning more about the event visit http://www.walknbike.org or contact lillian (at) bta4bikes.org

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