Do not confuse with Project Aces, the Namco Bandai

Namco Bandai

, also known as the Bandai Namco Group, is a Japanese holding company formed from the merger of Namco and Bandai. It has interests in toys, video games and arcades, anime, and amusement parks. The new entity was founded on September 29, 2005...

 design team in charge of the Ace Combat

Ace Combat

Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...

 flight simulation series.

Project ACES is an acronym for All Children Exercise Simultaneously. The American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 project is responsible for the annual "Project ACES DAY,"

History

The annual event was started in 1989 by Len Saunders at the Valley View Elementary School in Montville, New Jersey. It occurs on the first Wednesday in May at 10AM local time. It is part of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and National Physical Education Week. It is often called "the world's largest exercise class," as it brings millions of children, parents and teachers together from all over the world to exercise simultaneously in a symbolic gesture of fitness and unity. It underscores the need for high quality Physical Education

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

 in our nations' schools. It can be thought of as a cross between Earth Day

Earth Day

Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the...

, Hands Across America

Hands Across America

Hands Across America was a benefit event and publicity campaign staged on Sunday May 25, 1986 in which approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States...

and physical fitness. Currently, Project ACES is now managed by Len and HJ Saunders under the auspicies of the non-profit Youth Fitness Coaltion, Inc. For more information: Project ACES website and www.cofitness.net