Ready, Set, Fit is a smartphone app that integrates fitness and community focus. The app encourages engagement with place-based content in real-time through a collection of themed pathways. This supports fitness and learning about the community through helping users find interesting local cultural and historical sites and sharing stories or information about them. Achievement of fitness levels can also be linked to financial rewards through local business partnerships.
An on-going, interdisciplinary project since 2016, Ready, Set, Fit is built on student coding and community partner-student designed themed paths. Students have experimented with new app designs, created the artwork on the homescreen, conducted surveys to understand what paths the public would like to see developed, researched and written path content, and more.
“Coming into this project, I had a lot to learn. Not only did I have to acquire the technical skills to work on the app development, I also had to learn about the community and business aspect of the project.”
–Carina Beebe, ‘26
Paths include a transportation history timeline along the Buffalo Valley Rail Trail, art walks in Shamokin and Lewisburg, history and monuments in Shamokin, history and ecology in state parks, and more.
The app centers on community collaboration, with partners ranging from local downtown partnerships, historical societies, the Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources, health care providers, and employee wellness programs.
Funding for Ready, Set, Fit provided by Charles B. Degenstein Foundation, Geisinger, and Bucknell University.