4Elementary School News

Recyclable races finish Race Into Reading

What happens when you collect parts from old toys, food and packaging containers, glue, and paint, then add some help from Mom or Dad, and lots of ingenuity? You get a school-full of recyclable race cars!

Elementary school students built and raced recyclable racecars to celebrate the end of this year's Race Into Reading theme. The rules were simple. Build a car from any recycled material. The only prohibition was students could not use a ready built car like a MatchBox or HotWheels car.

The finished products were as unique as the students. Chassis were built of beverage and shampoo containers. Wheels were often taken from other toy vehicle, but one student even used four baseballs for wheels!

Each grade gathered to run the cars down a plywood ramp. The car that traveled the greatest distance was declared the grade winner. Winners gathered for the championship in the elementary school gymnasium. Amidst the screams of their respective supporters, grade winners nervously released their cars down the ramp

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