According to Assistant Principal Joseph Schaller, new vending machines have been installed. Unlike former vending machines, these three new vending machines feature new technologies as well as being open the whole school day.

The primary motivation, according to Schaller, for introducing the vending machines is to provide snacks for students involved in after school activities.

“We already had a vending machine at the pool area but it had a lot of foods you couldn’t buy due to regulations, so the machine was off during the day,” Schaller said. “If we were going to put machines in these areas, we needed them to be something we could hopefully have turned on during the day.”

Due to this, new vending machines and new snack foods have been introduced in order to keep the machines on during as well as providing students with healthier snack food options that fall within federal regulations for snack foods.

According to junior Seema Parsapour, the new vending machines as well as the healthier food options present a promising change in the way students could look at healthy eating.

“I think it’s a great platform upon which future advancements in food and health can be built upon,” she said. “I mean we can’t change culture overnight, but by introducing healthier foods and making them available as let’s say a Coke, then it’s still worth it,”

“It’ll be interesting to see how we respond to it,” she added.

For more information on the new federal regulations on snack foods click here