This document provides an overview of the various projects completed by Vehik Nazaryan during his nutrition internship with the Child Nutrition Team. Some of the projects included testing a Smart Snacks calculator, creating resources pages on Smart Snacks standards and professional development, evaluating child nutrition database software, drafting tweets about school nutrition, and building out sections of a nutrition website. Nazaryan's role involved extensive research, organizing resources, utilizing content management systems, and providing feedback to improve user experience.

1. FNIC ROTATION
CHILD NUTRITION TEAM
Vehik Nazaryan, UMD Dietetic Intern

2. Overview of Projects
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Software Testing- Alliance for Healthier Generation Calculator
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Smart Snacks Resources Page

Professional Standards Training Resources

Child Nutrition Database Software Evaluation
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Web Project

Tweets - School Nutrition Environment and Wellness Resources
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Last Week’s Projects

Professional Standards Website

USDA’a Dietarty Guidance Working Group Project

Vegeterian Resources list

3. Scavenger Hunt: The Glue that Kept
Everything Together
1st Day: Scavenger Hunt
Almost every project started with:
 Reading and more reading
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Researching
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Organizing materials that could be potential resources

Utilizing technology to the fullest

4. Software Testing
SMART Snacks Calculator

Reviewed the output for product nutritional
labels
Meets or does not meet the Smart Snacks nutrition
standards
 If does not meet- The reason why

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Put results in product label spreadsheet
Took the Usability Survey- short 5 question
survey

5. Product Labels

6. Smart Snacks Calculator

7. Product Label Spreadsheet

8. Survey

9. Smarts Snacks in Schools
Standards
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As required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free
Kids Act of 2010 USDA has issued new
“Smart Snacks in School nutrition standards
for competitive foods and beverages sold
outside of the federal reimbursable school
meals program during the school day

10. Smarts Snacks in Schools
Standards

These standards set limits on
 Calories
 Salt
 Sugar
Fat
 Beverages

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Promotes snack foods that have
 Whole
grains
 Low fat dairy
 Fruits and vegetables
 Protein foods as their main ingredients

11. Smarts Snacks in Schools
Standards
Notes:
 These standards are the minimum requirement for
schools

Schools can adapt standards that are stricter than
the federal standards
Flexibility:
 Time-honored traditions like fundraisers and bake
sales

12. Smart Snacks Resources Project
My Role:
 Find Resources for Smart Snacks page
 Lots

of research
Utilized Drupal : Content Management System

13. My First Web Page:
Smart Snacks in School Resources

14. Software Evaluations Project

Evaluated TrakNOW and WebSMARTT3 for
CN17 compliancy (Child Nutrition Databaseversion17)

Worked on a draft of the testing conditions for
CN18
(Child Nutrition Database-Version18)

15. Child Nutrition Database (CN-D)
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The Child Nutrition Database (CN-D)
CN-17: current Version
 CN-18: More recent version

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Data is collected on the following 15 nutrients:
Calories
 Total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,
 Sodium
 Carbohydrate, dietary fiber
 Protein
 Vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron,
 Ash, and moisture


16. WebSMARTT 3

17. TrakNOW

18. Professional Standards Resources Project
Goals:

Staff Training - Employee will be able to ensure essential
training is available and will encourage professional
development.

Ensure that all employees receive proper training in all
essential areas.

Offer opportunities for professional development.

Develop employee training plans, including a plan for
tracking training.

Implement a plan for retention, promotion and recognition.

19. Professional Standards
Project

Found resources for:
 Water,
energy, and waste management
 Recycling
 Staff training tracking

20. Tweets
For :
 School Nutrition Environment and Wellness
Resources Page
Also used:
 Used bitly to shorten the links
One of my Tweets:
Need new ideas to boost the wellness efforts at your
school? View this collection of success stories for
inspiration http://1.usa.gov/1bmAWwi


21. Web Project

Farm to School Section
 Reviewed
the current Farm to School section
 Categorized the resources
 Did the HTML codes for the Farm to School resources
into

Beans Section

Helped with the organization of the resources

23. Last Week’s Projects

Professional Standard's webpage


The Vegetarian Nutrition Resources(Currently working
on it)



Reviewed for user friendliness and browsability of resources
Review the resources for accuracy
Find additional resources for Vegetarian diet and Disease Prevention
USDA’s Dietary Guidance Working Group Project

Reviewed a pamphlet created for Vietnamese population living in the
USA

24. My E-Portfolio
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http://vehiknazaryan.weebly.com/

25. Thank You!

26. Questions!