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DRIVE SMART Weld County is excited about their Buckle Up Drive Smart program's 5th year! The safe driving awareness, peer-driven program allows teen groups/schools the opportunity to earn up to $1,000.00 for their school, organization, or club. Activities can be simple or complex and are awarded a monetary value accordingly. Each school is given a $200 budget to use for supplies for activities. A limit of five schools/groups will be accepted. One group per school. Participants will be chosen on a first come basis. Application forms are required. For more information contact Marjorie Hanson, Public Outreach Coordinator 970.381.8237 / drivesmartweldcounty@gmail.com
See below for activities from participating schools!
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Buckle Up Drive Smart School Activities 2019/2020
Congratulations to our BUDS schools! Due to Covid 19 we weren't able to celebrate in person but that didn't stop them from getting their well earned reward!
Fort Lupton High School Student Government earned $1,000.
Greeley West High School Fashion Club earned $1,000.
Platte Valley High School FCCLA earned $700.
Prairie High School FBLA earned $1,000.
Windsor Charter Academy National Honor Society earned $150.
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February 18, 2020
Prairie High FBLA group hosted Pawnee and Briggsdale High schools for one of our DRIVE SMART Teens programs. The Volunteer Fire Department also were there to talk to students about driving safely in rural areas. 
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February 14, 2020
Greeley West Fashion Club had a Buckle Up Pucker Up Valentine’s Day outreach. Approximate 100 students were reached with the buckle up message as they interacted with the BUDS group in the school common area. |
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February 13, 2020
Platte Valley FCCLA did a Buckle of Love activity. BUDS members went to all the advising groups and asked students if they always wore their seat belts. If they did they got a sucker with a reminder sign. They reminded all students of the importance of buckling up. 241 - yes and 31 no. |
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February 12, 2020
The Ft Lupton Student Government reached their goal and were awarded $1,000 for their efforts to keep their peers safe behind the wheel! They have and are going, above and beyond with an assembly featuring two staff members sharing their personal experiences with car crashes and have a big rig event planned for next month. What a great team! 
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January 28, 2020
The Ft. Lupton Student Government group created posters with driving statistics they have collected at their school. Those posters then became Kahoot questions played by all Advisory classes. That same day BUDS members placed signs on cars. They have gotten a lot of positive feedback so will continue every month. Great job! 
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January 15, 2020
The Ft. Lupton Student Government sponsored a lunch time driving while impaired activity. Student wore fatal vision goggles while riding tricycles to experience the difficulty of controlling a vehicle while impaired. |
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December 6, 2020
The Greeley West group created posters and handed out safe driving messages at the basketball game. 
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December 4, 2019
The Greeley West group put up a Christmas tree in the library. They created colorful paper ornaments and students were encouraged to write a safe driving message and hang it on the tree. Approximately 200 students a day use the library and are exposed to this activity. Happy, Safe, Holidays from Greeley West Fashion Club! |
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November 19, 2019
The Ft. Lupton group created personal notes: "Be thankful for your life. Drive Smart. Buckle Up". 
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November 12, 2019
Ft. Lupton BUDS group went to the advisory class where they held a quiz about safe driving. When completed, they gave a presentation on safe driving followed by a post quiz to see how much students learned. Students brainstormed to create a safe driving acronym using FLHS as the letters. 
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November 8 & 13, 2019
Ft Lupton Student Council BUDS group held a seat belt pledge for junior and senior drivers. Students who took the pledge received a bracelet created just for the event. "FLHS We Drive Smart" 
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October 31, 2019
Prairie FBLA BUDS group participated in a Truck or Treat in the snow, wind and cold! They bravely distributed safe driving messaging attached to candy. |
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October 26, 2019
Windsor Charter BUDS group participated in the Trunk or Treat event, handing our candies with safe driving messages and distributing safe driving materials. 
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October 18, 2019
FBLA BUDS team member Memphis Baker set up, planned and implemented a safety presentation to all Platte Valley 3rd graders on how to cross streets safely, move around school buses and the importance of always wearing a seat belt. 
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October 18, 2019 Greeley West Fashion Club held a seat belt pledge. Students that pledged to buckle up every time put their pledges in a box for a chance to win one of 6 gift cards to a local restaurant. 
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October 17, 2019
Platte Valley High hosted the Think Fast program that uses a game show format to teach teens about safe driving. 
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October 6, 2019
Students at Ft Lupton High created signs and a display for Trick or Treat Street that included October driving statistics and a display with a skeleton. Posters warning about the importance of safe driving were posted all along the hall and received many comments from participants. 
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September 16,2019
Greeley West Buckle Up Drive Smart program students participated in a seat belt check at the school this morning and found 21% of occupants were not buckled. Buckle Up! |
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Buckle Up Drive Smart School Activities 2018/2019
Congratulations to the five groups that participated in our 2018/2019 program!
Fort Lupton Student Council - Earned $1,000
Greeley West Fashion Club - Earned $1,000
Platte Valley FCCLA - Earned $700.00
Prairie FBLA - Earned $1,000
Windsor Charter Academy National Honor Society - Earned $150
Fort Lupton Student Council - Earned $1,000
Greeley West Fashion Club - Earned $1,000
Platte Valley FCCLA - Earned $700.00
Prairie FBLA - Earned $1,000
Windsor Charter Academy National Honor Society - Earned $150
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May 22, 2019
Even after the official Buckle Up Drive Smart year was completed, the Platte Valley High School FCCLA team created this sign to be hung by the water stations. Great Job! |
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May 15, 2019
DRIVE SMART Weld County coalition members Sue Helfrich (Allstate Insurance) and Marjorie Hanson (DSWC Public Outreach Coordinator) awarded Memphis and Kendall with the FCCLA $700 for their work over the school year with the BUDS program. Congratulations! |
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May 7, 2019
DRIVE SMART WC was pleased to award Prairie High FBLA $1,000 for their work this year to help their peers make wise choices behind the wheel. We had a wonderful time at the banquet. What a great bunch of people! |
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April 19, 2019 DRIVE SMART coalition members Marjorie Hanson (DSWC), Stacey Chase (Banner Health Paramedics), and Tamara Pachl (State Farm) presented Greeley West Fashion Club $1,000.00 for their efforts to bring traffic safety awareness to their peers through our BUDS program. Congratulations on a job well done! |
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April 18, 2019
DRIVE SMART coalition members Marjorie Hanson (DSWC Outreach) and Sara Kos (Colorado Motor Carriers Association) awarded Fort Lupton High school's student council $1,000 for their participation in our Buckle Up Drive Smart program this school year! They did an awesome job of spreading the message of making wise choices behind the wheel to their peers. |
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March 28, 2019
The Prairie High BUDS group gave a presentation on the importance of buckling up to kindergarten through 5th grade classes and then played a game of kahoot with the high school students to make sure everyone was reminded to buckle up and make wise choices behind the wheel. Great job! 
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March 21, 2019
Greeley West Fashion club held a pre-prom Fashion Show where they did a skit about making wise choices behind the wheel and announcement about their work this year partnering with DRIVE SMART Weld county. The Greeley Tribune covered the event. |
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March 21, 2019
Platte Valley High FCCLA completed their final seat belt check and had seat belt safety signs that they designed installed around campus. 
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February 27, 2019
Fort Lupton STUCO had a table with a Buckle Up poster and treats with messaging for students and adults in attendance. 
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February 20, 2019
The night of the playoff basketball game, Greeley West Fashion Club handed out safety messages attached to candy to everyone who attended the game reminding everyone to drive smart. 
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February 7 - 14
Fort Lupton STUCO had a week long fundraiser featuring Valentine candy with Safe Driving messaging. |
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February 14, 2019
For Valentine’s Day, the Platte Valley BUDS group went to all advising rooms and took a poll of who wore their seat belts every time they drive or ride. They presented all students who answered "Yes" with a Life Saver sucker. They handed out close to 200 suckers, which is well more than half of the student body. They also reminded each class about the importance of buckling up. |
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February 6, 2019
Prairie FBLA BUDS group held a workshop for members of District three FBLA to attend and work on. They gave a presentation on safe driving habits. Participants used their knowledge on the benefits of safe driving from the presentation in an academic competition. Finally, they had the opportunity to see the effects of drunk driving using the fatal vision goggles. |
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January 23, 2019
The Greeley West Fashion BUDS group shows off the Seat Belt Safety Shirt that they designed to help spread the message to their peers the importance of buckling up! |
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November 16, 2018
The Greeley West Fashion club team created safe driving reminders such as: "We are thankful for your life! DRIVE SMART!" and put one on each of the cars in the student lot. We are thankful for all the Fashion Club's efforts to keep other students and staff safe on our roadways! 
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November 2, 2018
The Greeley West BUDS Fashion Club group teamed up with the cheerleaders to distribute seat belt messaging to the crowd during the game. 
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October 30, 2018
Fort Lupton Honor Society created a whole wall with safe driving messaging using one of our Crash Dummies for a community trick or treat event reaching over 1,000 people. |
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October 27, 2018
Windsor Charter Academy participated in a Trunk or Treat event. It was a great turn out of both WCA families and the public. Students were allowed to pick a question (easy, medium or hard) and answer those questions for a piece of candy. All questions were geared to Safe Driving, including putting on your seatbelt, distracted driving, etc. 
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