JMHS SADD students advised by Mrs. Morelli and Mrs. Reyes sponsored an awareness activity on February 14 called Quick Click Challenge through Ohio Department of Health. Officer Ruse helped to organize this even and loaned the students his cruiser for some added fun! The sophomore class officers won the challenge with a time of 34.61. Junior class officers were close to follow with 36.95 followed by the Senior Class officers at 41.16, Freshman Class officers at 43.93 and SADD officers at 46.91.
Safety belts save lives. But an alarming number of today’s teens do not wear their safety belts,
and the result can be deadly. Students need to make safety belt use a priority for themselves
and their peers.
The Quick Click Challenge is a competition that demonstrates the ease of putting on and taking
off a safety belt. Teams of four students race against each other as they jump into a parked car,
put on their safety belts, and then raise their hands in the air. When all four have raised their
hands, they will unbuckle, get out of the car, and rotate in the car. Repeat the action four times
so that each person sits in each seat. The team that completes the rotation in the shortest
amount of time is the winner. Winning teams can compete with teams from other schools or
challenge teachers to a “belt off.” When you award prizes to the winners, remind everyone that
safety belts are easy to use and save lives.
The Rules
I. Each team will consist of four members.
II. The four members will start buckled in their seats.
III. When the whistle is blown, the stopwatch is activated. Each person will unbuckle
and move to the next seat (of a clockwise rotation).
IV. Once the participant is in his/her seat, it’s time to buckle up.
V. After buckling up, participants raise their hands in the air.
VI. Monitors positioned outside of the car will raise their pennants once they have seen
the safety belts buckled.
VII. The whistle will sound, and each member unbuckles and moves to the next seat.
VIII. When each member is back in his/her original seat, the time is stopped and
recorded.
IX. Seconds will be added to the time as a penalty for knocking over cones or for
incomplete buckling.
X. The team that completes the entire rotation in the shortest amount of time is the
winner.