Episode Details

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. It was a day filled with fun and a focus on the ultimate prize, helping to break the world record in Sports Stacking. On this episode of the Supercast, we take you to Terra Linda Elementary School, where students joined others around the world in a race against the clock, stacking specially designed cups in something called the 2022 STACK UP! Find out how they contributed to breaking the world record in a really big way.

We're here at Terra Linda, where they are working on helping set a world record in cup stacking, and we're talking with the teacher who is overseeing all of this. Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about today.

Jaime Scott:
Yes, I'm Jaime Scott. I'm the PE specialist here. We are just 1 class today, fifth grade, that is going to be a part of the world record. So it's going to be 3 days long. The world record is the most people sports stacking in multiple locations. So us in Utah, here at Terra Linda, other schools in Utah, other schools in the United States, and then schools in different countries, where we're all working to beat the 2019 record, which was 638,000. But the goal is to beat 650,000 people. They've been doing this for quite a few years. This is our first year at Terra Linda.

Anthony Godfrey:
Oh, so you were not involved in the previous world record.

Jaime Scott:
We were not involved in any previous ones. This is our first time, but I'm expecting about 445 students to help with this record at Terra Linda.

Anthony Godfrey:
So is the record how many people have been involved over the course of the 3 days?

Jaime Scott:
Yes. And you have to stack for 30 minutes, and then I just keep track of how many were here today, and I'm gonna turn it in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Anthony Godfrey:
So to count in the group you have to stack for 30 minutes?

Jaime Scott:
Yes. Yep.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay. Well, I don't have time to count.

Jaime Scott:
That's okay.

Anthony Godfrey:
But that's not the first time that's happened. Okay. So I see lots of different sizes of speed stack cups. Tell me about that. Does it matter what size they're using?

Jaime Scott:
So today's kind of our fun station day. We're gonna wrap up with some jumbo stacks, which are the oversized cups, and we also have mini cups that we're kind of using with your fingertips. But your normal cups are the handheld cups that are your medium size, and that's what you'll time yourselves for a world record if you really wanted to, and that's what we mostly use.

Anthony Godfrey:
Now normally there's the pad, I see some of the pads over there.

Jaime Scott:
Yes, the mat and the timer.

Anthony Godfrey:
So the mat is there and it can detect when your hands are on the mat. Am I correct?

Jaime Scott:
Yep.

Anthony Godfrey:
And as your hands leave the mat, then the timer starts and the stacking begins.

Jaime Scott:
That’s exactly right. Yeah.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay, but this is not that.

Jaime Scott:
Nope. We're not trying to beat any timed record. We are trying to beat the most people sports stacking in multiple locations. So right now there's probably tons of other schools that are sports stack