Welcome to NutriBee, the Bee-style nutrition intervention that engages youth to make healthful choices and equips them as future nutrition leaders. Our non-profit organization considers our mission urgent because at no time in history has a nation enjoyed as many food choices, and never have the lifelong consequences of making poor choices been more apparent. * Research conducted at Johns Hopkins University found that local NutriBees successfully engage youth from disadvantaged communities and that the youth improve their eating habits. * In order to strengthen the impact of the local programs NutriBee incorporates peer leaders, is building a national platform, and involves families. The first national Bee for public health: * Community-initiated * Collaborative * Inclusive These are not words people readily associate with national game shows, yet each is fundamental to public health interventions. * Communities who participate in NutriBee have an expressed concern about nutrition-related chronic diseases in their community. The community leaders implement the 20-hour local bee in the setting which they consider most suited to their needs, be it in school, after school or as a camp. Communities also choose the local instructors and students to be considered for the national NutriBee. Communities hosting a local Bee are encouraged to involve high school students as peer leaders through NutriBee’s Bee Quest. * Collaborative team-based learning is the basis for the 20-hour local bees and he national Nutribee. Early adolescents answer game-show style questions and win prizes as a team which builds sports-team style camaraderie. * Inclusivity of diverse populations and the disadvantaged was central to the selection of NutriBee’s 9 pilot sites: Native American communities in Michigan and New Mexico, The South Pacific Island culture of Guam, Urban Baltimore, and low-income rural and immigrant communities in Maryland.