The School Triathlon program promotes physical activity and healthy lifestyle habits among schoolchildren. The program’s values are participation and respect for self and others. The program has three components:

• TRISCO event

• Driving towards success

• 1-2-TRI SCO!

This program is part of the federation’s commitment to pursue its mission to help young people, particularly in underprivileged areas, gain access to sports and develop healthy lifestyle habits, and is financed exclusively by donations. With the Placements Sports program, all donations of $25 or more receive a 320% bonus.

• The TRISCO EVENT component is a service offered by Triathlon Québec (human and/or material resources) that provides support to school organizers who wish to organize a triathlon. This is the oldest and most popular component of the program. It is also the one that has been hardest hit in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, all events had to be cancelled. In 2021, two events took place, the first in an aboriginal community, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

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In 2022, 23 events are already on the calendar. Thanks to your donations, the program is gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels, when over 60 events were held annually. To achieve this, with the major increase in the cost of supplies and travel, your donations are of particular importance.

• The ROAD TO SUCCESS component consists of providing fleets of bicycles to schools in disadvantaged areas wishing to integrate duathlon/triathlon into their physical education programs, notably via the two other components of the School Triathlon program. Between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022, donations enabled us to donate 80 bikes and helmets, including 15 adult-sized bikes for secondary schools. This represents eight recipient schools. The Amik-Wiche school, host of the first school triathlon in an aboriginal community, received one of these fleets. This is in addition to the 460 bikes and helmets that have been distributed since the beginning of this program.

• In 2021, again thanks to your generous donations, the 1-2-TRI SCO! component was launched. We “took advantage” of the slowdown in trisco events to invest in a new component we’d been dreaming of for a long time. It’s a version adapted for schools of the 1-2-tri GO! program used in clubs. It’s easier to use and better adapted to the school environment. It is a repertoire of skills to be acquired, classified into seven levels. To this end, teachers have a number of tools at their disposal, including guides, worksheets and assessments to hand out to participants, all free of charge. The aim of this component is to provide young people with shorter-term physical activity goals, enhance their sense of personal accomplishment at trisco events and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits on a daily basis.