PTO Helps School Beat Guinness World Record for Hopscotch
When the PTO at the Round Hills Elementary in Williamsport, Penn., learned the school would be closed in 2013 as part of a districtwide reorganization, it decided to end the school year with an event the kids would never forget.
Now
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this is the way to wrap things up!
And they pulled it off.
In May 2013,
the PTO organized a hopscotch event with more than 300 people in an attempt to break the world record for the most people simultaneously playing hopscotch. Last week, Guinness World Records notified the former Round Hills community that it beat the previous hopscotch record of 358 people simultaneously playing hopscotch by one person and is now the official record-holder!
The school may have closed its doors, but its former students can remember that they helped beat a world record, says Wendy Potope, who was vice president of the PTO at Round Hills. “We wanted to put the school on the map,’’ she adds.
To make sure they were successful, Potope says she followed the Guinness rules precisely. The organization emailed the PTO its lists of rules and regulations, which included getting two witnesses who had no association with the school to observe the event.
The group waited four months to find out its fate. Potope says she starting getting a little nervous, wondering “what is taking so long?” But now she and other volunteers are having fun spreading the news to all the hopscotch participants, who are attending various schools in Williamsport, and letting them know they are now record-holders.
Photo credit: Mark Nance/Williamsport Sun-Gazette
And they pulled it off.
In May 2013,
the PTO organized a hopscotch event with more than 300 people in an attempt to break the world record for the most people simultaneously playing hopscotch. Last week, Guinness World Records notified the former Round Hills community that it beat the previous hopscotch record of 358 people simultaneously playing hopscotch by one person and is now the official record-holder!The school may have closed its doors, but its former students can remember that they helped beat a world record, says Wendy Potope, who was vice president of the PTO at Round Hills. “We wanted to put the school on the map,’’ she adds.
To make sure they were successful, Potope says she followed the Guinness rules precisely. The organization emailed the PTO its lists of rules and regulations, which included getting two witnesses who had no association with the school to observe the event.
The group waited four months to find out its fate. Potope says she starting getting a little nervous, wondering “what is taking so long?” But now she and other volunteers are having fun spreading the news to all the hopscotch participants, who are attending various schools in Williamsport, and letting them know they are now record-holders.
Photo credit: Mark Nance/Williamsport Sun-Gazette
