Wednesday, May 22, 2024

EZ Scan for Fun Runs - Fund Run Program

 Trade in the old clipboard and pencil for the EZ Scan App to track, time, and report your data for your fun runs.


Mileage Club Kid Scanning EZ Scan Card for Fun Run

What is a Fun Run?


A fun run can raise money for your school through sponsors and parents. Sponsors will donate a certain amount of money for each lap or specified distance completed by the participant. Participants can walk or run completing as many laps as they can to raise money. This money can be used to pay for school needs including next year’s EZ Scan and Mileage Club costs.

Types of Fun Runs


Fun Runs are not just a great way to raise money, but they are about community and creativity too! Themed fun runs can be a great way to encourage kids to participate.


Fun runs can be seasonal embracing the holidays, Thanksgiving Turkey Trot, Christmas or Hanukkah Run, Halloween, or Running into the New Year's Run.


Create a Themed Run to engage everyone like having a glow-in-the-dark run, colored run, bubble party run, superhero run, etc. Fitness Finders has a great selection of themed awards to coincide with your creative ideas and inspire kids to be active.


Have a run based around a special event like supporting a charity, kids against teachers or parents, including obstacles or a scavenger hunt, etc.


How to Have a Fun Run?


  1. Decide when and where your fun run will be and what you’re raising money for.

  2. Create a form to send home to ask for pledges, depending on how many laps or miles students will run within a certain time frame. Make sure they’re realistic goals!

  3. Create a fund program using EZ Scan to accurately track your laps.

  4. Host your fun run.

  5. Print out reports to show your sponsors exactly how many laps or miles were completed and let them know how well your students did.

  6. Make sure you thank your sponsors!


It’s as simple as that. Your students will love the challenge and your sponsors will appreciate knowing their pledges were fulfilled. Let us know how your fund run goes!


EZ Scan Banner

Use EZ Scan to Track and Collect Money for a Fun Run


Create a fund-run program within EZ Scan. To ensure your counts are accurate, the program needs to be separate from any other program you are running. On the day of the run have your students run and scan like normal, but be sure you're using the fund run program. When the run is complete EZ Scan will quickly and accurately count the laps your students finish, ensuring the pledges are complete.


Check out how Atlanta Track Club uses EZ Scan.


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