Healthy Kids
Eat your veggies: Plant the seeds of healthy eating
If kids can have a hand in growing their own vegetables, they are more likely to eat them. That's the thinking behind the new Farm to School initiative, powered by DEF with a $10,000 grant secured from Kaiser Permanente.
Happenings
TOUR deCATUR 5K Road Race, Fun Run, and Tot Trot
Come walk, run, or trot for a cause on March 13, 2010, in the eighth annual TOUR deCATUR. Activities begin at 8:45, with the 5K race/walk kicking off at 9:15. All proceeds from the race benefit programs of the DEF.
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Students experience
history in the making
The historic inauguration of President Barack Obama held lessons for Decatur High School students who witnessed it in person. And two students got to make the trip with help from a DEF EdVenture grant.
History
Kids breathe life
into history
With the help of a $1,300 grant from the Decatur Education Foundation, about 60 students from the three social studies classes at Oakhurst Elementary performed a "Living Museum" as they told about Georgia's physical landscape, Native American cultures and s historical figures.
