{"id":2251,"date":"2013-05-28T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2013-06-12T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T21:24:16","slug":"aiming-for-a-sticky-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aiming-for-a-sticky-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiming for a sticky world record"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lester B. Pearson students will be limbering up their lips this week in an attempt to beat the world record for the largest number of people in any one place blowing bubbles.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not trying to blow bubbles of the soap and water variety, but the pesky, pink chewing gum at their annual spring picnic to celebrate the end of the school year on Thursday, June 6.<\/p>\n

This year, the students are helping take charge of the picnic itself and looking for a way to do something truly memorable; they collaborated with parents and staff to lay the groundwork to take on the bubble challenge.<\/p>\n

They need at least 540 students and staff to blow their bubble gum all at the same \u2013 and make it last for at least 30 seconds \u2013 in order to beat the record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a bunch of parents in charge of the committee this year and we decided to make it more memorable,\u201d says Grade 8 student Deirdre Godsell. \u201cWe decided breaking the world record would be kind of neat.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to fellow student, Alyssa Izatt, students will be practicing this week while they continue to make announcements, make posters, and get the word out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of buzz when people heard we were trying to beat the Guinness World Record,\u201d she says. \u201cThat is a big thing, we\u2019re excited, and everyone realises it is doable and that\u2019s why everyone is pumped up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with setting a world record, this year\u2019s picnic will have an \u201cAround the World\u201d theme, with students having the chance to buy passports for all the food and activities on offer. There will also be a student art auction, which people can bid on. They\u2019re hoping to raise more money they can spend on the picnic and proceeds will be used to leave a parting gift as a legacy to the school before they go on to High School.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we have empowered the students with such ownership over such a significant event and it is just really rebuilding the whole idea of giving back to your school,\u201d says Principal Arin Otis. \u201cThis year we had a new committee of parents take over and they were the ones who were at the forefront of initiating getting our student leaders into the mix.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are fortunate enough to have the ability to give back, the big push is always technology as we empower our students moving forward in alignment with our board plan and how we engage students and inspire them to become lifelong learners. We\u2019re looking at the prospect of the legacy of the Grade Eights as they are on their way out to continue to build the capacity of our students and developing our digital literacy skills and [create] digital citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lester B. Pearson students will be limbering up their lips this week in an attempt to beat the world record for the largest number of people in any one place blowing bubbles.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not trying to blow bubbles of the soap and water variety, but the pesky, pink chewing gum at their annual spring picnic to celebrate the end of the school year on Thursday, June 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013-05-28-02.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-Aj","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 22:56:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}