Most of the students who gave up solitary driving chose instead to car pool that day. We love our cars, but we also love our lungs. We ' re not telling students not to drive. We ' re asking them to be aware of the alternatives to driving alone and the health and environmental benefits they can have. Tia Koonse, a student at St. Francis High School and a member of the Environmental Club that planned the activities at her school, noted that A even if you car pool once a week, you reduce your emissions by 20 percent.
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The challenge was funded by a grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and more than 200 prizes were donated by local businesses. The event received extensive media coverage. For the 1998 High School Clean Air Challenge, three high schools will participate, and ALA of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails will hold a Leadership Training Institute for core student participants, according to Shannon Robinson, School and Youth Programs Coordinator. The emergency department at Henry Ford Health Sciences Center in Detroit receives a lot of visits from teenagers suffering asthma attacks. When doctors there looked for an asthma program that would address the specific needs of inner-city teens, they found there ' s very little available.