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According to the Afterschool Alliance, of the 10.2 million young people in OST programs in the U. S., 24 percent are African American and 29 percent are Latinx; 45 percent qualify for free or reduced-price school meals (Afterschool Alliance, 2014) . Research has shown that youth from low-income and minority backgrounds consume less healthy diets than youth from high-income families (Kant & Graubard, 2006) . OST programs, whose informal settings provide opportunities for experiential learning, can address this problem by implementing nutrition and food-preparation programming to improve participants’ dietary knowledge and behaviors.  \nOur contribution to this effort is WeCook: Fun with Food and Fitness, an OST curriculum for fourthand fifth-grade students focusing on food preparation, nutrition, and physical activity. In the process of piloting this program, we discovered the need for a nutrition assessment that would be time-efficient, developmentally appropriate, and user-friendly. Our solution was to develop a novel tool called the Healthy Plate Photo (HPP) method, based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) MyPlate guidelines (USDA, 2017) .  \nASHLEY WALTHER, MS, was, at the time of this research, a graduate student in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) .  \nWEIWEN CHAI, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at UNL.  \nTARA DUNKER, MS, is a registered dietician and state project coordinator for WeCook at UNL Extension.  \nLISA FRANZEN-CASTLE, PhD, a registered dietician, is associate professor and extension nutrition specialist in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at UNL.  \nMICHELLE KREHBIEL, PhD, is associate professor and extension youth development specialist at UNL Extension.  \nWe used this tool, in conjunction with a conventional paper survey, to assess nutrition knowledge before and after children participated in WeCook.  \nHPP’s innovative approach is appropriate in OST settings because it is hands-on and fun for students; it is also easy for staff to conduct. To demonstrate their nutrition knowledge, children build a healthy plate (as defined by USDA) using plastic food models. The results ofour pilot study suggest that the HPP method can be a practical and useful nutrition assessment tool for OST programs to use with youth from varied socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds.  \nTraditional Nutrition Assessments  \nSelf-reported paper surveys traditionally have been used to assess nutrition and healthy behavior knowledge, behavior, and self-efficacy in young participants (Burrows, Lucas, Morgan, Bray, & Collins, 2015; Cunningham-Sabo & Lohse, 2013; Davis, Ventura, Cook, Gyllenhammer, & Gatto, 2011) . As a quantitative form of data collection,  \non participants’ lived experiences (Creswell, 2013) . However, qualitative methods have limitations, particularly the extensive amount of time needed to collect and analyze data (Creswell, 2013) . This limitation can be especially problematic in OST programs, where time and staff resources can be scarce.  \nSome alternative assessment methods have yielded positive results. For example, a study by Leung and colleagues (2017) used Photovoice, a tool for communitybased participatory research, to explore young people’s perceptions related to food justice in their own community so the they could identify solutions to promote positive change. Results suggest that Photovoice could be a useful tool to enable youth to reflect on—and change—their food environment (Leung et al. , 2017) . However, little research has been conducted on other alternatives to paper surveys or qualitative methods to assess youth nutrition knowledge. 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