'What are you doing with your life?' (12 photos)

Approximately 150 students from Sault and Algoma secondary schools celebrated a fun, healthy lifestyle at the second annual ABCD Bon Soo School Olympics outside Mill Market Tuesday.

There was help from teachers and school board administrators, along with community sponsors, but the students planned much of the activities themselves.

Project ABCD (Action for Building a Community that is Drug-Free) was launched in 2009 by the Algoma District School Board (ADSB) and community partners to fight rising rates of substance use in schools.

"The message is to have a natural high, we want all students to be able to have fun and be active without using drugs or alcohol so the ABCD teams are here and they've planned each event to really promote that healthy high message," said Olivia Keenan, a Superior Heights student and ADSB student trustee, speaking to SooToday.

Students in teams from Central Algoma Secondary School (CASS), Elliot Lake Secondary School, Korah Collegiate, St. Mary's College, Superior Heights Collegiate and White Pines Collegiate enjoyed human foosball, snow soccer, frisbee football, tug of war, capture the flag and snow relay.

"We do our best to try and get some students to stop (using drugs or alcohol), I'll say 'What are you doing with your life?' I do approach them if I can," Olivia said.

"My plan for my team was to choose people which I thought could be at risk to fall into that crowd, to try and get them here and prevent that from happening," said Mackenzie Hulme, a CASS student and Olivia's fellow ADSB student trustee.

Mackenzie said it was "awesome" to get 25 CASS students on board for the ABCD Olympics, considering the school has a smaller student body than schools in the Sault.

"At Superior Heights we actually had a waiting list of teams but we have three full teams and they're excited to be here," Olivia said.

Teams marched on to the Mill Market property Olympic-style, waving school flags and accompanied by school mascots.

Each team performed a "Healthy Holla" cheer, while school mascots, at one point, broke into a dance.

Medals were presented to participants at the end of the day's activities.