Vegetarian Resource Group volunteer Marcia Schveibinz was invited to speak at a high school. She reported:
“In the morning before I arrived, the school showed The Game Changers documentary to the classes as most of them are athletes. They then gathered the 2 classes together over lunch. There were about 30 senior boys (17-18 years old) altogether. A teacher’s wife made vegan chili with some vegetarian toppings on the side. The boys helped themselves to lunch before I started the presentation.
I had about 40-45 minutes, so I started with a 4 question pre-test, (which was based on my presentation objectives for them to complete to see how much they knew already about vegetarianism/veganism). Next I did a slide presentation of the benefits of vegetarian/vegan eating along with information on specific nutrients, and ideas for meals. Then I paired off the boys and each pair chose a restaurant menu (from Chipotle, PF Changs, Jimmy Johns, or Panera), along with nutrition information and allergy info for each menu. Their task was to create a vegetarian meal and a vegan meal. Then we had a few volunteers tell what they came up with. At the end we went over the pre-test and again, volunteers raised their hands to tell what their answers were. The boys will be doing a one-week vegetarian challenge where they don’t eat any kind of meat for a whole week. My presentation was supposed to arm them with information and ideas to make the challenge go smoothly! The teachers expressed interest in having me do the presentation again next year during their food unit.”
For information on other veggie presentations, see:
https://www.vrg.org/family/kidsindex.htm#plans