Larissa Lakin of Flinthills High School is not only a member of the KDOT Safe Program, she was recently crowned co-winner of the 2020 Turkey Hunt according to SAFE Advisor, Michael Austin.

Students at Flinthills are well aware of the annual Governor’s One-Shot Turkey Hunt held in El Dorado every April. The FHS SAFE students took this idea and created their own SAFE One-Shot Turkey Hunt with a twist!

Students would wear drunk goggles and using a nerf gun shoot at “turkeys.” Male staff members graciously agreed to don turkey costumes and be moving targets for students.

Other games included a True or False game which taught students about the effects of alcohol consumption and the drunk goggle scooter race where participants wore the goggles while pushing one another on scooters in a timed event.

Josh Hunter and Larissa Lakin ended up being the 2020 Turkey Hunt Champs. The drunk googles are available for SAFE students to borrow from the state. They come in different levels of ‘intoxication’ and are invaluable for educating teens in an entertaining way.

SAFE or Seatbelts Are For Everyone is a program sponsored by the Traffic Safety Resource Office and is a teen-run, peer-to-peer program focusing on increasing teen restraint compliance through education, positive rewards and enforcement. It is designed to bring awareness to the importance of wearing a seatbelt, therefore reducing the number of motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities among Kansas teens.

The goal of SAFE is to increase seatbelt use among students while providing strong traffic safety messages throughout the school year.