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Kids stack cookies in global project
By RANDY HARRISON
Daily News
Washington Elementary
School first-graders were recently among students from around the
world who participated in a school project that was good enough
to eat.
Students in Melanie
Corn's class took part in the OREO (Our Really Exciting Online)
Project, along with children in 46 states plus Australia, Canada,
Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, Scotland and Thailand.
The goal was
to see how many Oreo cookies students could stack before they tumbled
over.
Each student
took two turns. They were not allowed to use anything to stabilize
the cookies, nor were they allowed to adjust the cookies as they
stacked. And they were encouraged to speculate how many Oreos they
thought they would be able to stack and then compare their actual
results.
Corn submitted
a class average based on each child's highest stack. Branton Scott's
stack was the tallest with 24 cookies. The class average was 17. |