One of the fifth-grade classes at Manor School created this rendition of the Bristol Mountaini Ski Resort for the Can-gineering event last week. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
Each year, the students at Honeoye Falls-Lima’s Manor School hold a Can-gineering event where they build structures out of cans or boxes of food. The event does two things: the students get to put into practice some of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) skills that they have learned and, perhaps more importantly, they learn about the importance of giving to others, particularly during the holiday season.
This year was no different. Manor School’s Can-gineering event was held on Tuesday, November 23.
The second-grade classrooms used Let’s Go Buffalo Bills for their theme and the projects included Josh Allen’s uniform and the Buffalo Bills Stadium. The projects in the third-grade classrooms were varied, ranging from a Christmas Tree to a Castle to HF-L’s James Dollard Stadium to an Ana-Can-da (an Anaconda snake) to the City of Rochester to a Target (reflecting one of the Habits of Mind – accuracy) to a Thanksgiving Dinner. The fourth-grade classrooms pooled their resources and talents to build a Shield Volcano (one of the subjects the students were studying was volcanos). The fifth-grade classrooms based their projects on Winter Wonderland with projects such as a Bowl of Soup, Olaf the Snowman from Frozen, an ice rink, Bristol Mountain Ski Resort, a mountain, a snowman, a Hanukkah Menorah and a Christmas Tree.
Winners from the Can-gineering event were:
- Striving for Accuracy Award for Best Use of Cans – The fifth grade and their winter wonderland (Group category) and Mrs. Fleming’s class Bills Stadium (Individual Classroom).
- Wonderment and Awe for Most Creative – Fleming and Harrison’s class for Buffalo Bills Stadium.
- Widest – Heilemann and Fraser’s class for the Ana-Can-da.
- Tallest – Vitale’s class for Holiday Tree (Unaided) and Patton’s class Christmas Tree (With structural resources).
- Largest Number of Cans incorporated – The Fourth Grade and their Shield Volcano.
- Best Representation of the Habits of Mind – L. Smith’s class and their Striving for Accuracy Target.
- Finding Humor – Or the Overall Fan Favorite – All in The Second Grade for their tribute to the Buffalo Bills.
The most important thing is that, through the Can-gineering Event, the students at Manor School collected 2,111 cans of food.
The food donations were split between Lima Food Pantry, Honeoye Falls’ FISH (Friends in Service Here) organization and the Bloomfield Foodlink organization, said Assistant Principal Joelle Weaver.
