Our research team has reviewed well over 100 PEP Grant applications, and worked closely with the IDE to create an initiative that can immediately benefit the many rural Iowa districts and schools that have limited community partnerships and scarce resources for travel and professional development. Our comprehensive one-year initiative is designed to directly impact over 25,000 K-12 students in eighty-seven schools and indirectly serve thousands of other students across the State. While our short-term program objectives include the statistically significant improvement of aggregate levels of physical fitness and improved nutritional habits of targeted students, we will also build a sustainable and replicable project that will assist, educate and motivate other districts and schools statewide.