Green Eggs and Ham Day

Senior Master Sgt. Randy Simmons (right), 22nd Aircraft Maintenance squadron unit supervisor assists children through an obstacle course during the 22nd Annual Green Eggs and Ham event at Beech Activity center March 11, 2015 in Wichita, Kan. Green Eggs and Ham is designed to get children excited about reading. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Krystal Jimenez)

Green Eggs and Ham Day

Master Sgt. Chris Vaughan, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance production supervisor, aides children at the beginning of an obstacle course during the 22nd Annual Green Eggs and Ham event at Beech Activity center March 11, 2015 in Wichita, Kan. Green Eggs and Ham is an event designed to get children excited about reading. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Krystal Jimenez)

Green Eggs and Ham Day

Master Sgt. Erique Diggs, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance production supervisor, assists a child through an obstacle course during the 22nd Annual Green Eggs and Ham event at Beech Activity center March 11, 2015 in Wichita, Kan. Green Eggs and Ham is designed to get children excited about reading. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Krystal Jimenez)

Green Eggs and Ham Day

Published March 16, 2015
By 2nd Lt. Krystal Jimenez
22nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. -- Three senior NCOs from McConnell Air Force Base volunteered to help children run through an obstacle course at Wichita Head Start, Early Head Start and Child Start Green Eggs and Ham Day at the Beech Activity Center in Wichita, Kansas, March 11.

Senior Master Sgt. Randy Simmons, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron unit supervisor, Master Sgt. Chris Vaughan 22nd AMS production superintendent, and Master Sgt. Erique Diggs, 22nd AMS production superintendent, helped more than 150 children ages 3-5 complete a Dr. Seuss themed obstacle course.

"The community does a lot for us," said Simmons. "What better way to give back than helping develop these kids!"

The obstacle course was just one of more than 10 activities offered to the children. Each activity is modeled after a different Dr. Seuss book in keeping with the Green Eggs and Ham theme of the event.

"I love seeing the expressions on the children's faces when they walk in," said Debbie Boldea, Headstart risk management specialist. "Even years later they never forget it."

" We felt it was important to help get these kids excited about literacy," said Vaughan. " This event focuses on developing future generations to be well educated leaders and we are definitely in support of that."