IBC Youth Development Bowler's Ed Program reaches over 9,000 people at national convention
April 05, 2024
ARLINGTON, Texas – The International Bowling Campus Youth Development team attended the 2024 SHAPE America National Convention and Expo in Cleveland to promote the Bowler’s Ed program to health and physical education professionals, and their presence at the expo will directly impact over 9,000 students.
Approximately 3,000 professionals gathered for three days, and IBC Youth set up a booth to spread the word on how Bowler’s Ed can be used as a free resource, as well as to show what the program fully entails with the physical curriculum that was handed out.
While at the booth, staff explained the Bowler’s Ed Grant program, curriculum and how to order equipment. Roughly 1,700 physical curriculums were given to educators along with 1,500 flash drives and 208 curriculum binders, which will potentially impact thousands of students around the country.
Felicia Ceaser-White, the Curriculum Coordinator of Health and Physical Education K-12 at Houston Independent School District, was at the convention and ordered 500 Bowler’s Ed curriculums for her district.
“The Bowler’s Ed booth was great and very interactive. I was hoping to win one of the bowling lanes,” said Ceaser-White. “I’ve already got the USB drives and plan on using them for professional development in my district.”
Along with the booth, the team set up two bowling carpet sets so that anyone could come by and bowl five frames. The school with the highest score received six sets of carpets, pins and bowling balls for their physical education classes, while places second through seventh received one set.
By the end of the expo, 235 people participated in the five-frame game, and the highest total belonged to TASIS Dorado, located in Puerto Rico, which enrolls over 750 students.
Places second through seventh went to the following schools (school, location, number of students attending):
• Castle High School, Hawaii, 1,173 students
• Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, 6,000+ students
• Greenbrier Eastside Elementary, 479 students
• Mirman School, California, 375 students
• Sandusky Middle School, Virginia, 548 students
• Wydown Middle School, Missouri, 578 students
Altogether, over 9,000 students will be directly impacted from the Bowler’s Ed sets given out at the expo, with more to be impacted by the curriculums that were sent out after the convention.
For more information on Bowler’s Ed, visit bowl.com/bowlers-ed.
Approximately 3,000 professionals gathered for three days, and IBC Youth set up a booth to spread the word on how Bowler’s Ed can be used as a free resource, as well as to show what the program fully entails with the physical curriculum that was handed out.
While at the booth, staff explained the Bowler’s Ed Grant program, curriculum and how to order equipment. Roughly 1,700 physical curriculums were given to educators along with 1,500 flash drives and 208 curriculum binders, which will potentially impact thousands of students around the country.
Felicia Ceaser-White, the Curriculum Coordinator of Health and Physical Education K-12 at Houston Independent School District, was at the convention and ordered 500 Bowler’s Ed curriculums for her district.
“The Bowler’s Ed booth was great and very interactive. I was hoping to win one of the bowling lanes,” said Ceaser-White. “I’ve already got the USB drives and plan on using them for professional development in my district.”
Along with the booth, the team set up two bowling carpet sets so that anyone could come by and bowl five frames. The school with the highest score received six sets of carpets, pins and bowling balls for their physical education classes, while places second through seventh received one set.
By the end of the expo, 235 people participated in the five-frame game, and the highest total belonged to TASIS Dorado, located in Puerto Rico, which enrolls over 750 students.
Places second through seventh went to the following schools (school, location, number of students attending):
• Castle High School, Hawaii, 1,173 students
• Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, 6,000+ students
• Greenbrier Eastside Elementary, 479 students
• Mirman School, California, 375 students
• Sandusky Middle School, Virginia, 548 students
• Wydown Middle School, Missouri, 578 students
Altogether, over 9,000 students will be directly impacted from the Bowler’s Ed sets given out at the expo, with more to be impacted by the curriculums that were sent out after the convention.
For more information on Bowler’s Ed, visit bowl.com/bowlers-ed.