Many chronic diseases begin in childhood

A healthy lifestyle means a balanced diet and regular exercise. Healthy children have better school attendance and learn more. We use data to find out how children eat at school - what they do and do not like to consume, judging by what gets left on the plate. Healthy Classmates educates students, parents and teachers on how to develop healthy eating habits within the whole community.

First, we will install a robot in the school canteen. The robot that monitors what the children eat.

Parents are sent information on nutritional values of their child’s lunch via our app. They can see how the child liked the taste of their food and compare it to the data of the rest of the class.

The goal of this project is to educate the community and the parents and facilitate a discussion. The app’s objective is not to spy and punish the child for not eating something, but to learn why the child might not enjoy certain foods and what are some tastier alternatives that could replace the necessary nutrients.

The aim of our initiative is to improve children’s eating habits by using data. 97.8% of children spend time doing sedentary activities - whether at school or behind a computer or a TV screen.Over the last decade we have seen an increase in average body weight in all age groups. We will use new technologies to start a conversation about preventing chronic diseases and improving the quality of our lives.

In addition to collecting data from robots in school canteens we motivate parents to answer questionnaires about their children's movement and sleep in the same mobile app. Anonymized data will also help the Regional Office of Public Health in Banská Bystrica to understand the lifestyle of the young generation and to better focus its prevention programs. We also collect data on the quality of our environment, especially in terms of free movement of children and young people and available healthy eating options in the area through campaigns on our website aipowered.city.