From April 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. up until May 28, 2012, at 5:00 p.m.

Throughout May, the Month of physical education and student sports (MEPSE), you will motivate your child to participate in physical activity. For your child to accumulate even more energy cubes, you will also encourage those close to your child (siblings, parents, grandparents) to join in on the activities. You will also verify that the accumulated cubes are recorded in your child's participation logbook by signing it in the appropriate place. As a parent, you play a vital role in your child's success in the Get Up and Move contest. We thank you in advance for your participation!

Your child must be active at school and at home to accumulate as many energy cubes as possible (1 energy cube = 15 minutes of physical activity). The ultimate goal: to win a pass for the Grand Prize event in Montreal.

A few examples of eligible activities: soccer, basketball, mini-basketball, jump rope, skateboarding, biking, swimming, diving, relay racing, hiking, ice skating, ball, gymnastics, Frisbee, badminton, flag football, hockey, track and field, tchouk-ball, golfing, judo, skiing, curling, horse-riding, roller-skating active video games (e.g., Kinect, Wii Fit), etc. In short, any group or individual activity which requires some physical exercise.

A few examples of ineligible activities: Passive video games, card games, board games, pool, fishing, driving a four-wheeled vehicle, mini-golf, etc. In short, any activity in which you don't get enough exercise.

No. All members of your child's immediate family relatives (including grandparents, brothers and sisters) are invited to participate in order to improve the school's chances of winning. However, for the energy cubes accumulated to be admissible, the activity must be performed in the company of the participating child.Trainers, sports team members, extended family members (uncles, aunts, godfathers, godmothers, etc.), pets (!) and others cannot accumulate energy cubes. They are, however, welcome to move to encourage students in their challenge.

Your child must enter into his or her logbook which can be downloaded on our website. Your child must enter their sessions of physical activity in the logbook on their own, and have it approved by a parent. An adult's signature is essential for the exercise session(s) of the child to be admissible for the accumulation of energy cubes.

The logbook is mostly used for exercise done at home. In school, during P.E. lessons or recess, for instance, the teacher can choose to use their own method to record energy cubes instead of the child's participation logbook. If they choose to use the participation logbook, the teacher must sign each logbook to validate the exercise sessions that each child has entered. Note that an energy cube cannot be earned more than once.

The average number of energy cubes per child makes it possible to compare the results of the participating schools which regularly compile their results online, on a same basis, regardless of the number of students at the school.

The total number of energy cubes accumulated by your child's school refers to all the energy cubes collected by students throughout the Grand défi.

School and staff kindergarten students can now accumulate energy cubes.

The number of participants refers to the total number of students at the school.

See how your child's school is doing by visiting the Leaderboard section of the Get Up and Move website.

The draw for the Grand Prize, which will be held in June 2012, will now take into account both gray matter cubes accumulated during November’s Sharpen Your Gray Matter contest and energy cubes accumulated during May’s Get Up and Move physical activity contest. Since the Grand défi now has two components, both types of cubes are combined to form GRAND DÉFI cubes. The final score of these new cubes will determine how many Grand Prize draw entries each school receives.

There will be one winning school in each of Quebec’s administrative regions (Bas-Saint-Laurent, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Capitale-Nationale, Mauricie, Estrie, Montréal, Outaouais, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Côte-Nord, Nord-du-Québec, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Chaudière-Appalaches, Laval, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Montérégie, Centre-du-Québec). Each of these schools will be selected based on both participation and a random draw, as follows:

In this way, by setting a minimum that is fairly easy to attain, each school has at least one chance of taking part in the draw and to be the regional winner. The more active schools are in both competitions, the more chances they have of winning. Participating schools also have the option of taking part in only one of the two components,

In addition, the school with the greatest average number of energy cubes per student across Quebec will be named the Desjardins champion school and will participate in the Grand Prize, along with Pierre Lavoie’s Favourite School.

Schools ineligible for the Grand Prize draw can now still participate in the Get Up and Move challenge. Contact your child’s school to find out if it is registered for the Grand Prize draw.

There will be one daycare winner at the provincial level as well a daycare winner for each of Quebec’s 17 administrative regions. The daycare winners will be selected based on both participation and a random draw, as follows:

By setting a minimum that is relatively easy to achieve, each daycare has at least one chance to enter the draw and win in their region. The more active the daycare, the more they increase their chances of winning. The daycare winners will be announced around June 6, 2012.

We rely on the honesty of parents and teachers in charge at each school to communicate their results in a fair and impartial way. Should there be any doubt, the organizers of the Grand défi could ask for a verification in due form.