As a parent of a child in high school, I am extremely excited to introduce you to Dr Pepper Snapple Group’s Let’s Play initiative, which provides kids and families with the tools, places and inspiration to make active play a daily priority. That’s such a great initiative to help the current generation to get moving!
You know, it needs to start at home: my son loves basketball, so we hired a private coach to help develop his skills and keep him active in the summer!
We also bought nets for our town basketball court, to help local kids to utilize it more often!
I love that this is amplified by the Let’s Play High School Makeover Challenge, which will award one lucky school with $100,000 in brand-new athletic equipment. Student-athletes from all over the country submitted videos explaining what sports means to their school to enter the contest.
The top 20 submissions have been selected, and one is right here in Philly, The Northeast High School, so I want to encourage you to vote to determine the top 10 finalists.
The voting period runs from September 8-17, 2017 that will result in a top 10. Voting is open to the public and your votes will help determine the top 10 schools in the running to receive the equipment makeover. Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Good Sports will select the winning high school, which will receive $100,000 in new athletic equipment. Amazing, isn’t it?
You can vote by clicking HERE, and follow along with the contest using the hashtag #LetsPlayHSMakeover!
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This is amazing! I hate that many schools don’t get the funding for the things they really need.
Louise x
This is a nice contest. I hope your school wins. The make over will be of great help to every student.
This is so cool. Keep it up. it is important to help our kids develop their skills and support them with what they wanted to do.
What a cool contest. I was lucky when I was in High School. I opened my school and was the first graduating class so literally everything was brand spankin new.
I love that this is happening! It’s disheartening to see so many schools go without funding, I’m so happy people are stepping up to help.
Awesome initiative. Our school is lucky to have good equipment for sports and an alum donated a really nice auditorium for the band, seeing companies level the playing field is good.
I love the Let’s Play initiative and I think it is fantastic that they are doing this makeover! There are a lot of great, deserving schools!
My son is into soccer and that is such a great program to help schools. Good luck to all!
This seems to be a cool initiative. Some schools cannot afford expensive equipments. This will be so helpful
After my younger daughter graduated from college she worked in the office of Dr. Pepper Snapple. She loved how community oriented they are. I hope your son’s high school is the winner of $100,000 in athletic equipment. I have my fingers crossed for you and all of the kids.
This is such a cool initiative by Dr Pepper for a good cause. There are so many schools that need sport equipments so I think this makeover challenge is amazing.
This is so cool! Great to support schools and get the community involved! Schools need a lot of help these days with equipment.
I am such a fan of communities that help out local schools. I really love that you donated the nets for the hoops at your local community , I think that is really kind x
Any upgrade on equipment is always fun! I love that there are resources available to get these things. Sports are always fun for kids.
This is incredible! I’m so glad that organizations like this exist, they’re so important for schools and sports are crucial for kids during their young school years. Love this!
I love this! What a great program to help schools in need. We could have used this when I was in school.
I love this idea. So many schools and community places are not able to afford the equipment that is needed. I like that you donated the nets for the hoops at your local community also. I think this program sounds like a wonderful idea and I hope it finds its way into more communities.
That’s a great challenge. I love that buying the new nets gives your son better equipment when he plays, but also benefits the entire community!
It can be hard these days to get kids moving! I love this focus Dr. Pepper has!
That is great, my kid’s school could have used an athletic makeover! Some districts have far more money than others!
Love this idea! I have always been a strong supporter of physical activities during the school day. Kids are much more likely to learn more when there bodies are “activated” during play! Not to mention the health benefits!
I’m glad that there are programs like Let’s Play High School Makeover Challenge to give schools a chance to win brand-new athletic equipment. Sports is totally a must and thus having proper and well-maintained equipment is needed.
This is really a great initiative for kids in high school. Sports is an essential part of education.
This would be an amazing opportunity for an school!! I can only imagine how far all that money would go to a deserving schooL!!
That’s an amazing idea to help kids become more active. For the parents, it would be a nice way to spend time with the kids!
That’s a great initiative! Our schools here suffer from lack of sports equipment and no one does anything about it!
This is really awesome! Such a great way to keep kids moving. Good luck to all the finalists!
Wow, that is a life changing amount of equipment for a school. So cool! PE is so important so it’s nice to have good equipment.
What an amazing opportunity for the winning high school. We have to make schools the best possible for our kids.
Woah $100,000 in new athletic equipment is AMAZING! Imagine what they could do with that! Such a wonderful initiative, I wish they did this sort of thing in the schools here.
What a cool challenge. I can’t wait to hear what lucky school will win the makeover challenge! I know a few schools in my community that could benefit from something like this!
What a great way to motivate people to not only help give but also to make their communities better. I’m going to go watch the videos now!!
It is so great you bought nets for the baskets! I think the Let’s Play High School Makeover Challenge is a great initiative.
What a great program! It is very good to know that there is a support for local schools.
What a great challenge. There are so many high schools that could use it! Its sad how much of their budget has been cut!
This is really great. I know a lot of schools could really use this. I certainly know ours could.
Wow this is incredible! There are so many schools including ours that need this!
Oh how cool would it be to win your school the makeover! This is such a cool challenge! The athletic gear is going to help so much.
What a great initiative, so nice to see Snapple provides kids and families with the tools, places and inspiration to make active play a daily priority, this is so very important!
The Let’s Play initiative is fantastic. I think it is important to help fix up our community. I will have to look into this for my area.
I worked with this initiative here in NJ to help local schools get new playground equipment. I so believe in the power of play and getting kids active, no matter their age!
This is such a great thing! Too many schools don’t have enough or adequate play equipment.
I know of so many schools that needs new equipment (and a few minor renovations on their actual building). I think that this is really amazing!
Love this idea! So many schools need proper equipment for kids to be able to play. I’m glad there’s a program like this!
What a wonderful initiative and a worthy one! Thanks to Dr. Pepper company for doing this! I hope that schools in low-income areas win!
This is so fabulous. I know so many schools need new equipment! I’ll go vote for sure!
I love this. What a great way for schools to get equipment they may need.
I am excited for any programs and initiatives that empower our youth. This is truly great news!
This is a great post! I love that they are doing this. It really is important that schools have updated equipment, not only for the purpose of team sports and fun, but also to keep safety in mind!
What a great way for schools to get the equipment for sports. Sports are important and they keep kids in school.
This is awesome! I know my high school could have really used an update a few years back
I think what they are doing is great! School cannot always afford new equipments and it’s not fair to kids to be playing with old stuff when others before them had new things
I was very lucky when I went to high school that it was brand new, so all of our equipment was new and nice. The highschool that my daughter went to in 9th grade where we live now, was also the same high school that my dad attended. It was in desperate need of help.
What an absolutely amazing thing for them to be doing, it is always good to be able to find ways to support your local school.
Amazing initiative, the world needs it
I LOVE this! Our kids’ school has a thriving sports team, but they really need to upgrade their equipment. Unfortunately, they don’t have the funds.
Sports are important to the growth and development of children. If they aren’t into sports, they should at least be active and play outside.
Good luck to all the schools!
This is Maisie! There are schools out there that need so much of duty and just don’t have the money to do it. Something like this is absolutely perfect.
I think this is amazing. We are actually getting a whole new high school in my town and we NEED it