Albany Avenue Elementary Students 'Walk to Wow'

Students at Farmingdale's Albany Avenue Elementary School are taking fitness to a new level. 

The school's recently launched "Walking to Wow," a before-school fitness program, encourages students to walk for 20 minutes before the school day begins. The program is based on a recent fitness study conducted by The University of Illinois-Urbana, which found that walking for 15 minutes daily can increase student performance in a series of key academic areas. 

The areas of student performance improved by walking boosted the volume of the brain, efficiency and other cognitive processes such as memory, attention and decision-making.