They're GRR-EAT! Plymouth Elementary School students almost quadruple the goal to donate 400 boxes of cereal
They're GRR-EAT! Plymouth Elementary School students almost quadruple the goal to donate 400 boxes of cereal
Plymouth Elementary School students had a “ce-real” experience this week when they stepped out of their classrooms to see over 1,500 boxes of Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, Apple Jacks and other breakfast treats snaking through the school hallways.
The boxes had been collected through a Spirit Team collection drive as a way to support local food pantries. Students were promised the chance to participate in the viral cereal box domino challenge if at least 400 boxes were donated. Surprisingly, the school collected three times that amount and then some.
On May 14, the Spirit Team had to make good on its promise of the domino challenge. Students carefully set up a trail of boxes that wound through the hallways of the first floor and into the gym. Through trial and error, they learned to place breaks after every 20 boxes to stop the domino effect if someone accidentally knocked one over while they were getting set up.
When it was time to set off the chain reaction, students from the entire school lined the first floor hallways to watch. Bamboo, the Plymouth Elementary School mascot, tipped the first box after a rowdy countdown by the students. One by one, the boxes fell, prompting cheers from students as the momentum carried through the school.
Third-grader Tenzin Chusang said he was feeling “very hungry” after watching all the cereal boxes go down. But on a more serious note, he said the challenge taught him that “when we work together, we can be really good at stuff.”
Georgia Fazzini, third-grader, was surprised that the end result was a collection of over 1,500, since initially the numbers were much lower. But everyone pulled together at the end to generate a huge collection.
“Some of us donated like two cereal boxes, but when everyone pitches in, we get a lot of cereal boxes,” she said.
