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WATCH: Aly Raisman Encourages Pollard Students to "Ask, Listen, Learn"

Needham olympian Aly Raisman stops by the Pollard Middle School to talk about underage drinking and making healthy decisions.

 

A Needham Olympian returned to her middle school today--to talk to the kids about making good choices.

Aly Raisman brought The Century Council's Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix program to the Pollard Middle School on Monday. The program encourage parents and kids to have active discussions about the dangers of underage drinking.

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In addition to promoting an ongoing dialog between parents and kids, the Ask, Listen Learn program aims to give kids the courage to "say YES to a healthy lifestyle and NO to underage drinking." To that effect several student leaders, and Raisman, played a quick interactive game on a projection screen. A runner jogs along as the player ran in place on a mat for about 30 seconds, then stops to answer a lifestyle question.

She also asked for their support on her upcoming Dancing with the Stars season.

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Other recent honors for the local Olympian include dropping the puck before a Bruins game, the AHRC NYC's Thurman Munson Dinner, being named . Not to mention the MBTA's Aly Raisman Banner on the Needham line.

Aly joins other 'superstars' in the underage drinking cause, such as Apolo Anton Ohno and Julie Foudy 

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