Who knew Mount Vesuvius’ eruption could be depicted with cans and boxes? Mr. Mariani’s fourth-graders built this out of cans and boxes of food for the Cangineering event at Manor. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
BY DONNA MACKENZIE
It was different this year, but the Manor School’s Cangineering event still happened even though not all the classes actually did a project.
The Cangineering event involves the students collecting canned or boxed food for local food cupboards and building a project out of those items before they are donated to the food cupboards on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Recess. Usually, the school selects one theme and all the projects are tailored to that. This year, due to COVID, some of the classes did not make projects while others did. So the classes selected themes from something that they were currently studying.
Among the themes were Urban Community, Rainforests, Biomes, Thanksgiving and Mount Vesuvius and its eruption that buried the Italian city of Pompeii. Some of the other projects that were made were a “We Love Manor” sign, an Urban Community with people helping others, a Cougar face, an Anaconda snake, a rainforest, hand sanitizers from a couple of different classes, a turkey, an entire city and a pineapple.
The Manor students this year collected 2,949 canned and boxed food items that were donated to the Lima and Honeoye Falls food pantries, said Manor Assistant Principal Joelle Weaver.
