SECOND GRADERS TO PARTICIPATE IN HARD HATS FOR LITTLE HEADS

  

Texas ENT & Allergy, Aggie Athletes Involved (AAI), Texas A&M Athletics and Texas Medical Association, along with supporting sponsors want to encourage child safety by giving away free bicycle helmets on Thursday, February 19.  The program will be held on the Texas A&M campus at Reed Arena and will begin at approximately 9 a.m.

For the seventh year in a row, approximately 3,400 bike helmets will be presented to surrounding area second graders.   This year’s event will include Bryan ISD, College Station ISD, Navasota ISD, Brenham ISD, Anderson-Shiro ISD, Mumford ISD, Snook ISD, Hearne ISD and Caldwell ISD. Presentations will be made by Aggie Athletes in sports such as equestrian, softball, baseball as well as football on the importance of helmet use and safety.  The city Mayors from the surrounding cities will participate in a relay race along with the school mascots.

Hard Hats for Little Heads is a comprehensive educational curriculum created by Texas Medical Association thru donations from various sponsors and presented thru Healthy World Healthy Children Foundation. The program has impacted over 19,000 local second graders in this seven year period and is designed to educate children about how to prevent head injuries by wearing a helmet when bicycling, in-line skating, skateboarding, 4-wheeling or any other wheeled sport.

On average, 250 children in the United States under the age of 14 die each year because of a bicycle crash.  Another 300,000 children are treated in emergency rooms for severe head injuries.  Many of these accidents could have been prevented if the children had worn bicycle helmets.  Helmets can reduce the risk of head injury by as much as 85 percent, yet only about 40 percent of cyclists wear one when they ride.  Healthy World Healthy Children, Texas ENT & Allergy, AAI, Texas A&M Athletics, and participating sponsors want to ensure our kids are wearing helmets when they ride, glide or drive.

Participants and sponsors of this year’s program include: 

Healthy World Healthy Children

Texas ENT & Allergy

Andrew de Jong, MD

Ronald Kuppersmith, MD

Aggie Athletes Involved (AAI)

Texas A&M Athletics

Texas Medical Association

College Station Medical Center

Blue Bell Creamery

Wells Fargo Bank

 

Robertson Neal, Atty

Chambers Energy Capital

ANCO Insurance

AgriLife Extension Brazos Valley Injury

Prevention Coalition

MSC Bookstore

Texas A&M Police Department

College Station Police Department

Bryan Police Department

TxDOT

 

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