College has a crack at breaking records

Year 13 creative arts committee members Klay Inglis and Ayla Wesley are excited to see if they can break both records.

Teeth brushing and marshmallow eating are two world records Otumoetai College is hoping to break this Thursday.

The school will be trying to break two records involving year 9, 12 and 13 students in celebration of the end of the term.

Each term the Creative Arts Committee come up with an event to bring their school together.

Earlier this term they didn't have an event planned until a committee member suggested that they should try breaking some ‘random' world records.

'We didn't realise it would turn into a big event. We thought it would be a fun event where we do small ones, but then we started thinking on a larger scale,” says head boy Hayden Christie.

The two records they will be trying to break are most people to brush another persons' teeth and most amount of people to simultaneously eat a marshmallow.

'We wanted to choose new records that not many people have done.”

Christie says the marshmallow record is one that they have invented themselves, but they heard about the toothbrush record from a news article.

A school in the South Island broke the world record with 400 students, but Otumoetai School hope to beat this with 600 more students.

'The process of the Guinness World Records is that we have to apply for the record. We make an account and each record has its own application that someone has to verify.”

On the day they will also be required to have 25 stewards, one to every 50 people, to sign off the record, but also make sure everything has been done correctly.

They will also have to provide photo and video evidence.

Creative Arts Committee member Klay Inglis says the students will be tallied and separated by year and then will make a circle where they will brush the person's teeth to the left of them.

They says they're grateful for Brookefield New World supplying them with marshmallows and are looking for someone who can supply them with extra toothbrushes in case the students forget to bring their own.

'Mr Bodman, the teacher in charge of our creative committee, said it's one of the most interesting events he's come across since he's worked here,” says Ayla Wesley.

The event will be held on the College fields on Thursday, July 6 at 2.20pm.

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