One Month to Go…the Countdown begins

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Lana

Today we kick off the one month countdown to our Cardboard Challenge, being held on October 9th this year. Check out last year’s cardboard challenge here, thanks to Mr. Neill; we certainly had a lot of fun.

Below is an approximate schedule of what to expect in the weeks leading to the event.

From now-September 14th-we are all promoting the event, asking children and parents to start collecting things in their home, community or even parents workplace (e.g. ask colleagues to save their toilet rolls/tissue boxes etc)

September 15th-September 18th-Students bring small cardboard items into their classrooms, such as cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, shoe boxes, granola boxes, tissue boxes etc

Weekly Challenge No 1- September 21st-September 25th

This year we are putting different grade levels together to collect materials. Grade Level Competitions to contribute the most small items into the boxes set up outside the ES Library, there will be giant boxes for these grade groupings:

Pre K and 4th Grade

K, 1st and 5th Grade

2nd and 3rd Grade

Between September 21st and September 25th, students will drop off their small cardboard items such as cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, shoe boxes, granola boxes, tissue boxes in the giant boxes outside the library.

Each Day at 9 am, the items collected will be counted, and a running tally displayed on the wall. The Group with the most items contributed by Friday 9 am will be the winner and a small prize will be given to each student.

Weekly Challenge No 2- October 5-8th

Stay tuned for details

Friday October 9th

Global Cardboard Challenge

Stay tuned for details

If you’d like to know more about the origins of this challenge, have a look at the Imagination Foundation website here.

While this is an All Elementary Event, we also have an increasing number of helpers and participants from the Middle and High school which adds to the fun and great community feel. Parents and community members are not just welcome, but necessary, so please please e mail me at kimbra.power@saschina.org if you’d like to come along.

Magnificent Movie of Cardboard Challenge SAS 2014

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Lana

“Cardboard Challenge was awesome because it taught us teamwork and engineering” Michelle

“I liked the idea of cleaning up too because it made us more responsible” Daniel

“I really liked the teamwork” Vincent

“I liked destroying the boxes afterwards as it felt great on my feet” Zach

“I liked that all the grades did cardboard challenge” Elena

“You got to expand your imagination and think deeper than what you normally do” Malu

“It was a fun way of letting your imagination run wild” Kaitlyn D

“Playing with cardboard and your friends was great” Linh

“Working with friends was so cool for cardboard challenge and even when we argued, we still worked things out and had fun” Celine

“I was sad when it was over, can we do it two times a year?” Gracie

“We built a house with awesome features, including a door” Ludwig

“Getting to make anything you wanted was amazing” Chris L

“Cardboard challenge was fun because I tried my best and built so much” Fatime

“Building a lot of games was awesome and so much fun” Kaitlyn F

“The best thing about CC day was being able to create and build anything you want” Sean

“Cardboard challenge was awesome because we could build what we wanted to, and then the best thing was getting to play with it and show it to our friends” Max C

“Building things is so much fun, especially when you build them with your friends” Cleo

“We got to use our imagination to have fun, we thought of ideas and built our own projects” Han Rei

“Cardboard challenge was awesome because we made a blind bowling station and working with my friends was great” Rebecca

“Making things was so much fun, and then destroying them afterwards was cool too” Ali

Wow, thanks so much Davey Neill, a 5th grade homeroom teacher who took the time to video all of our activities on September 27th at Shanghai American School Pudong Campus.

http://videonew.saschina.org/player/pak_player/pakplayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideonew.saschina.org%2Fplayer%2Fpak_player%2Fembed_player.php%3Fvid%3D9402%26json%3Dtrue%26autoplay%3Dno

Cardboard Challenge Changes Children

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Lana

OK, well it’s not that the children are PHYSICALLY changed, or shorter now, or actually changed at all really… but doesn’t that alliteration sound great?

Thank you to Amy Hoosack for all the wonderful, no, BRILLIANT photos taken on Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus’s Elementary Cardboard Challenge.

You can see here what an amazing day the kids had from the smiles on their faces, it really was incredible to see students, teachers and parents having so much fun playing with cardboard… and using their imagination.The only complaint I kept hearing was that they were not allowed to take the materials home with them… and we did tell them why, but it’s hard when you’re 6 to not be able to take things home right.?

Apart from that, there was joy, laughter, teamwork, adaptability, enthusiasm, thinking on your feet, decision making and problem solving displayed EVERYWHERE to be seen.

Winners are Grinners

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Lana

A big, huge, wonderful, enormous, gigantic CONGRATULATIONS to 3ED for bringing in 89 toilet rolls last week to contribute to our Cardboard Challenge mini-challenge! Runners up were KEV and 2KH and the most exciting thing for me was just how many different classes we had in the top three each day… it really was a whole ES effort and the total of over 600 toilet rolls will surely add to our fun on September 26th when we imagine, create and build with all of our cardboard goodies.

This weeks mini-challenge is for students to bring in as many empty granola boxes and empty toothpaste boxes as they can. Students should also be thinking about our final challenge next week, September 15th-19th, which is to bring in shoe boxes and cereal boxes, but for now, keep those, and any other cool cardboard items you’re collecting, AT HOME please. Details of these challenges were written about here, complete with more images.

Toothpaste box

Granola Bar box

Remember you can read more about the Global Cardboard Challenge here, and be sure to check out the boy who started it all, Caine, as you watch one of the Caine’s Arcade videos on youtube… (you’ll need a vpn)

18 more sleeps…

Get challenged this September

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Lana

On September 27th, our Elementary School will be taking part in the Imagination Foundation’s Global Cardboard Challenge. The GCC began after a man named Nirvan entered Caine’s Arcade on 28th of September 2011, and went on to make a film about Caine, that quickly went viral.

Here is the story of that day…

http://videonew.saschina.org/player/pak_player/pakplayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideonew.saschina.org%2Fplayer%2Fpak_player%2Fembed_player.php%3Fvid%3D4656%26json%3Dtrue%26autoplay%3Dno

The Imagination Foundation is a non-profit group with a mission to find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children. As a means of launching the Imagination Foundation, Nirvan arranged the Global Cardboard Challenge, to encourage creativity with cardboard, and arranged over 270 events across 41 countries, including one at Caine’s Arcade.

Check out this one minute clip of all the great things you can do with a cardboard box!

http://videonew.saschina.org/player/pak_player/pakplayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideonew.saschina.org%2Fplayer%2Fpak_player%2Fembed_player.php%3Fvid%3D4617%26json%3Dtrue%26autoplay%3Dno

This year, the Imagination Foundation aims to involve over 70 countries and one million people.

Resources for Inspiration

Pinterest Page full of images from the Global Cardboard Challenge
http://pinterest.com/imaginationfdn/global-cardboard-challenge-resources-for-educators/

All of the videos playing in the library have come from this page
http://www.imagination.is/gcc_videos

A great page fostering creativity and imagination
https://mymakedo.com/cardboard-challenge

the barefoot librarian

Kimbra Power

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