YATP (Spring 2017)

Last week, the Banyan students came on Friday. I felt it was the most rewarding and successful session so far. Myself and another coordinator conducted the FitnessGram in order to measure students' aerobic capacity, muscular strength/endurance, flexibility, and body composition. I assisted the student volunteers as they worked with each Banyan student. Although most of the students were not able to complete each test, they became aware of which areas they were weak in and what they needed to work on. The goal now is to create a program for each student based on the data we collected. Dr. Laughlin has asked me to help him set up a research project based on the current and future data collected on the Wayne students. The study will be looking at the effects of an intervention on the Wayne students. There will be 5 steps: (1) create a training manual, (2) establish distinct measures, (3) measure baseline student performance, (4) train volunteers and staff using the same training manual, and (5) implement intervention and measure ongoing student performance. The goal of this project is to see if the YATP program has a long term effect on the students. My first step is to research articles and begin collecting literature.