Competition Sponsored by Medifast® Challenged Students to Design an Experiment to Test a Hypothesis about the Healthy Habits of Healthy Eating and Hydration or Healthy Motion
Legends of Learning, Inc., the leading game-based learning platform in the United States, has announced the grand prize and runner-up winners for the Healthy Habits Virtual Science Fair, sponsored by Medifast. The competition was the third of Legends of Learning’s game-based learning competition series designed to engage kids at home with interactive and collaborative team-based STEM competitions during virtual/hybrid learning.
“We are excited to announce the Grand Prize and Runner-Up winners of the Healthy Habits Virtual Science Fair,” said Joshua Goldberg, Co-Founder of Legends of Learning. “Our judges were especially impressed by the hypotheses created and tested by students and their families. We greatly appreciate the effort, attention to detail, and creativity all participants put into their submissions. We encourage them and other students throughout the country to participate in future competitions which can be found at https://www.legendsoflearning.com/stem-competitions/.”
The team “Triumph”, a grand prize winner from Logan City School District, UT, is featured in the above photo with his Sloth Running Team Medal after he finishing biking his 5k!
A participant from Baltimore County Public Schools, who was selected as a runner up winner, shared his experience with the Legends of Learning team:
Trémen McBride is a middle school student at Baltimore County Public Schools. He is humbled and grateful for being selected amongst thousands of contestants nationwide, in the Legends of Learning Virtual Healthy Habits Science Fair Competition, for his hard work in his investigation on testing his hypothesis on the presence of Vitamin C. He’s been a fan of math for as long as he can remember and later developed a self-interest in technology. His interest in science matured through his early exposure and participation in various STEM camps and coding challenges introduced to him by his mom…Trémen gives a special thanks to his 7th grade Science teacher Ms. Perry who inspired and supported him in science last year, along with his mother and Ms. Jenkins, who encouraged him in his decision to enter the Legends of Learning contest.
A special thank you to Medifast for sponsoring this competition.
Additionally, Legends of Learning and Medifast would like to recognize all of the incredible teachers and parents who assisted their students with this competition.
The Grand Prize Winners were:
- Triumph (Logan City School District, UT)
- Blink Twice (Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL)
The Runner Up Winners were:
- Dream Team (Soledad Unified School District, CA)
- Jumping Jacks with Beth (Latin School of Chicago, IL)
- LMS Hornets (Guilford County Schools, NC)
- Watts Family (Cobb County Public Schools, GA)
- Team Delahoussaye (Cobb County Public Schools, GA)
- Keira’s Quarantine Snacks (Los Olivos Elementary School District, CA)
- Science Panther (Al-Mamoor School, NY)
- Healthy Scientists (Lammersville Unified School District, CA)
- The Effect of Healthy Motion on Heart Rate (Al-Mamoor School, NY)
- Food Fuel (Al-Mamoor School, NY)
- V-TAB (Baltimore County Public Schools, MD)
- Waqiah and Bisma (Al-Mamoor School, NY)
About Legends of Learning
Legends of Learning is the leading game-based learning platform in the United States, with over 2,000 curriculum-aligned games covering Kt-8th grade science and math. Legends of Learning believes that by working with our human nature to learn through experience and play, we can accelerate the pace of learning for humanity. Legends has over 2 million students using the platform in all 50 states and D.C. Whether you are a 4th grader learning about Fractions or a 7th grader learning about Cell Structure, you can learn more effectively through games on the Legend of Learning platform.
About Medifast
Medifast is the company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. Based on nearly 40 years of experience, Medifast has redefined direct selling by combining the best aspects of the model. Its community of thousands of independent OPTAVIA Coaches teach Clients to develop holistic healthy habits through products and clinically proven plans, the Habits of Health® Transformational System and comprehensive support from a community of like-minded people. In 2019, Medifast expanded the OPTAVIA movement globally, beginning with the Asia-Pacific region. Medifast is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and was named to Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2019 and Forbes’ 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America List in 2016 and 2017. For more information, visit www.MedifastInc.com or www.OPTAVIA.com.
