Events

The Real Food for Kids Culinary Challenge is an annual event that gives an opportunity to NOVA students to influence food served in schools. The goal of this challenge was for teams of 2-5, each from different schools, to craft and create a healthy and appetizing menu item, abiding to the USDA guidelines, a provided budget, and certain ingredients, to ultimately feature the winning meal in school cafeterias across the region next year. The lunch entries were judged by a panel of "students, school food professionals, chefs, and local luminaries", one of which was our Founder, Shreya Papneja. 

On April 6th, 2017, Best of Reston and Cornerstones held their 26th Best of Reston Awards, honoring the finalists who have shown dedication, love, and support towards the Reston Community in 2016-2017. This year's gala event showcased 22 finalists, including our Founder and CEO, Shreya Papneja, who were recognized for their inspiring work and stories. It was a wonderful evening with over 400 attendees, videos displaying the amazing work each individual, business, or organization have done this year, and dinner.

CHAPS held its first healthy food drive at Langley High School during Saxon Time! We packed snacks for unprivileged children in our local community, including pretzels, popcorn, raisins, trail mix, peanut butter, and water! We packed almost 80 packs, and we will be donating them to Food for Others. 

​On August 1st, 2018, Sushi-Zen hosted a fundraiser for CHAPS. We had 60+ supporters, where 20% of the dinner sales went towards our non-profit. We will use the money collected from the fundraiser for our future events, organizing more healthy food drives, and for reaching out to unprivileged families in our community. Our supporters enjoyed a variety of healthy Japanese delicacies!

​We had the opportunity to see 8 performances by VSB teams and a Giddha performance! CHAPS organized the fundraiser at the event, and we talked about CHAPS, its goals, and its mission! At the event, CHAPS hosted a raffle! To get a raffle ticket, attendees came by our booth and either tweeted #chapsamerica or added to our Facebook story, and they were eligible to win a​ FREE CHAPS T-shirt or gift cards!

The annual Arlington Turkey Trot was held on Thursday, November 22nd, 2018! CHAPS is a proud supporter of the run as we are an advocate for physical fitness and believe in the importance of exercising while having fun! Additionally, the Arlington Turkey Trot held a Costume Party and Contest on Friday, November 16, and it was supported by CHAPS!​

CHAPS CEO and founder, Shreya Papneja, was honored to meet Senator Barbra Favola! They discussed common goals around enabling elementary school children to make healthier choices .  Senator Favola has been very active in establishing programs in elementary schools in her district to make kids more active during recess. She was pleased to meet with Shreya and congratulated her on her vision to make American Schools Healthy One Child At a Time. On January 18th, 2016 our Founder and CEO, Shreya Papneja was invited to visit the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia to meet with the First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe's Chief of Staff, Lincoln Saunders and Delegate Patrick Hop​e.