O.W. students claim top honours in Nutrition Quiz

Today seven high schools from across the country faced some tough questions in the annual ADM Belize Mills Nutrition Quiz Competition Finals. At the end of five rounds of questioning, defending champs Stann Creek Ecumenical had garnered enough points for third place, San Pedro High School claimed second … and taking the top honours was Orange Walk Technical High. This afternoon the elated boys and girls told us the strategy behind the win.

Emmanuel Robinson, Nutrition Quiz Champ
“We feel good. We feel excited.”

Delvi Flores, Nutrition Quiz Champ
“Great.”

Emmanuel Robinson
“Proud.”

Delvi Flores
“Excited.”

Emmanuel Robinson
“We did excellent. We feel rich.”

Kendra Griffith
“You all studied very hard for this, you were hoping for this?”

Delvi Flores
“Yes, very. We did a lot of after classes studying and on weekends and we made it.”

Kendra Griffith
“How was the competition?”

Emmanuel Robinson
“I saw it easy, it wasn’t hard.”

Delvi Flores
“It was tight. To be honest, it was tight.”

George Godinez, Nutrition Quiz Champ
“There was a lot of competition out there.”

Erika Goldson-McGregor, Nutrition Quiz Committee
“The objective of the quiz basically it to try and see how we could reach young people in trying to change their whole behaviour as it relates to lifestyle practices. We recognise that over the years—if you looked in our health statistics you will see that a lot of people are dying from complications from diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and we recognise that these are conditions that start very young in life and we feel that if we start with the young people in changing their attitudes towards dietary practices and exercise, we will be able to change that trend in the future.”

The top students received trophies, cash towards their tuitions, and school supplies.