On reflection, the task of stacking playing cards in a tower sounds like an easy one. In reality, this test turned out to be one of the most challenging to date, second only to the juggling contest. While many students tried and failed, perseverance paid for others. Those who studied the video on teams of master stacker world champion Bryan Berg found his tips to be an invaluable resource.
At the conclusion, we had a tie at the top with three students assembling awesome 5 story creations. Cathal McCathy's stood tallest by virtue of the fact that he was using bigger cards and he might have gone higher had he not run out of them. Talented first year, Diana Coakley once again did 1F proud with a solid building, mounted on the top of her desktop. Front runner Katie Kingston's relentless march continued into this challenge and she shared top spot with a work of precision. Cathal, Diana and Katie's achievement is an amazing feat for amateur stackers and they should be very proud of themselves.
Star basketball forward Orla Seymour shared second spot with the gifted Caoimhe Flannery who produced 4 story high stacks.
Grace Bohane showed there are many ways to build a house of cards and took third place with 3 and a half stacks.
Megan Fitzgerald followed her running feat last week with precision stacking to three stories this week.
One of the more beautiful creations I received was from Abby Kelleher who shared fifth place with Matthew Benn who is climbing up the leader board rapidly after a slow start.
We had 8 more contestants who achieved 2 stories.
No mean achievement. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
The 10th Challenge:
Sit ups. How many can you do in one minute?
The details have been sent to your team apps and already many of you have tried it. Please study the video before you start and keep your knees bent. Thank you to Katie for suggesting this challenge.