91AV students, faculty and staff give away hundreds of helmets to promote brain safety

91AV students and faculty worked with volunteers from the Michael T. Goulet foundation to fit and distribute over 350 helmets

91AV faculty, staff and student volunteers worked with the Michael T. Goulet foundation to outfit more than 450 people with properly fitting helmets in two days.

On Oct 20, Michael Burman, Ph.D., associate professor of Psychology, Jennifer Malon, M.S., M.P.H, program coordinator for the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for the Study of Pain and Sensory Function, and students Victoria Eaton (Neuroscience, ’19) and Makaela Rice (Biology, ’19) fit more 100 third graders with helmets as part of Biddeford Elementary School’s recognition of healthy behaviors for the Red Ribbon Campaign.  

On Oct 21, Burman, Eaton, Rice, Haley Lawlor (Health, Wellness and Occupational Studies, ‘19), Diana Braver (D.O., ‘20), and Mike Cyr (D.P.T. '21) worked with volunteers from the Michael T. Goulet foundation to fit and distribute more than 350 helmets to the public at the Saco Harvest Festival. Children and adults benefited from receiving professionally fit, multi-sport helmets at no cost to them.

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