AUSTIN – First Lady Anita Perry today announced the annual Texas Round-Up First Lady’s T-shirt Design Competition, which encourages children age 12 and under to create a health and fitness-inspired design to be used on the official T-shirt for the FitKids Family Mile on April 24, 2010. “By encouraging our children to share their ideas of health and fitness with us, we can take that opportunity to teach them the values of healthy eating and regular physical activity,” said Mrs. Perry. “With all of the stresses and demands on families today, in some cases, it may be our children reminding us to take some time and make better choices.” Texas Round-Up is striving to improve the health of Texans through education and promotion of physical activity and healthy living. The U.S. Surgeon General has reported that 70 percent of overweight children will become overweight or obese adults. The T-shirt competition is part of Texas Round-Up’s FitKids program, designed to reach out to children to promote physical activity and healthy eating. All elementary and middle school principals will receive contest applications by mail from Texas Round-Up. Families wanting to submit individual entries can visit www.texasroundup.org for information. Texas Round-Up will accept entries for the T-shirt design competition through Feb. 28, 2010. The winning artist and his or her parents or guardians will be invited to attend the Texas Round-Up race weekend events, which include a 10K, 5K and FitKids Family Mile, on April 23-24, 2010 in Austin. Participation in the race events is encouraged, but not required, to submit a design entry. In 2004, Governor Rick Perry launched the Texas Round-Up statewide fitness initiative and 10K race to motivate and encourage Texans to become more active and incorporate healthy choices into their daily lives. Today, Texas Round-Up is an independent not-for-profit organization working to improve the health of Texas through education and promotion of physical activity and healthy living. For more information about Texas Round-Up’s programs or the First Lady’s T-shirt Design Competition, please visit www.texasroundup.org.