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Teamwork Makes The Gingerbread Work At Seaford Middle School
The construction exercise was designed to teach students about the value of teamwork, district officials say.
SEAFORD, NY. — Seaford Middle School students found that it took a classroom to build a village of gingerbread houses Friday.
The middle schoolers were divided into teams and tasked with building the tallest, strongest structures possible out of graham crackers, in what district representatives said was the third of six "team building" challenges they'll face this year.
According to Dr. Raphael Morey, principal at Seaford Middle School, the prior two challenges featured ice cream tasting and pumpkin painting, with students breaking into different teams each time to teach them to work with others.
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Students looked back at those previous exercises before building their gingerbread houses, to see which teamwork strategies had worked, which hadn't, and which ones might be applicable to confectionary construction.
At the end of the challenge, students saw their towers measured and tested to see if they could support the weight of a tennis ball.
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"The teaming challenges reinforce several Seaford Scholar traits including
communicator, innovator, networker and resilience," District representatives said.
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