Choosy Kids

So, I have my first article assignment. I am writing about Choosy Kids, which is a company based in West Virginia and was co-founded by Dr. Linda Carson. She worked at WVU from 1979-2009 when she retired and focused all of her energy on Choosy Kids. She had been working on Choosy Kids since she first started at WVU, but back then, it all started with KinderSkills and KinderSplash and other programs that she started and ran with the help of her students. The first KinderSkills class was in the spring semester of 1980 and it ran for a long time. I myself attended KinderSkills when I was around three or four years old. My mother worked in the Physical Education department with Linda and she took me and my sister to KinderSkills. I loved it and I know that these children at Head Start facilities all across the country love Choosy and love the programs that the company puts on.

Choosy Kids is a company... not a children's program like most people think it is. They go to Head Start facilities across the country and even to other countries and train teachers and children about oral health, nutrition and physical activity. They want to get children thinking about the healthy choices and alternatives they could be making and starting it when they're fairly young so it gets engrained in their heads so they grow up making the healthier decisions.

Choosy is the company's mascot. He doesn't have a story yet. It is left up to the child's imagination. He's green, furry, wears red Converse high tops, a backwards baseball cap and purple sunglasses. He is very much the face of the company and he helps teach the children about the proper and healthy ways they could be eating and living their lives. The children have a lot of theories about who/what Choosy is. Some say he's an alien from a healthy planet and he was sent to Earth to teach us. Others say that he is a bug who came up from underground to help us live healthier lives. Linda doesn't have a story for him yet and she doesn't know if she's going to think of one because the stories the children come up with are amusing and very, very creative.

Overall, I think this story on Choosy Kids will be very difficult to write mainly because I have never written a journalistic type of story and I'm worried that I won't have a good grasp on the style of the magazine. I'm just worried that it won't be good enough because I don't have any experience in this type of writing.