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<p>FORTY-FORT &#8212; When it comes to cardboard, the possibilities are endless.</p><p>At least that&#8217;s what elementary and middle school students were trying to prove on Saturday.</p><p>The children were cutting, taping and building with the paper recyclable in the cafeteria of Wyoming Seminary Lower School as they took part in the Global Cardboard Challenge Saturday.</p><p>Seminary Communications Director Gail Smallwood said elementary and middle school students have been participating in the annual event as part of &#8220;STEM Saturdays&#8221; for the last four years. She said the event originated from a Los Angeles-based boy named Caine Monroy, who decided to spend one summer building an entire arcade out of cardboard in his father&#8217;s auto-parts store.</p><p>After a filmmaker saw the set-up, he created a documentary entitled &#8220;Caine&#8217;s Arcade&#8221; that quickly went viral, sparking a worldwide movement with the creation of the Global Cardboard Challenge, held each year on Oct. 1.</p><p>&#8220;So kids all around the world are doing exactly what these kids are doing today,&#8221; Smallwood said.</p><p>The event was free and open to all area elementary and middle school students.</p><p>Children could bring a project they&#8217;re working on from home, or create one from scratch at the event.</p><p>Games, costumes and characters are popular items to create; however, ideas were limitless.</p><p>Once the projects were complete, they were displayed in the gym for exhibit/use. While cardboard must be used, the students can include other items, such as tape, toys and more.</p><p>Wyoming Seminary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Director John Eidam says the event coincides with STEM&#8217;s fundamentals, allowing students to get hands-on learning.</p><p>&#8220;The idea of STEM is to get students to work collaboratively in a hands-on activity,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It sparks their interest, often getting them involved in an activity.&#8221;</p><p>Eidam said that he simply sets basic ground rules for the challenge and allows the students to choose the path they want to follow creatively.</p><p>A new addition to this year&#8217;s challenge was encouraging students to &#8220;go green.&#8221;</p><p>Students were encouraged to sign a &#8220;green pledge&#8221; at the event, created by the Wyoming Seminary Environmental Club, to help reduce, reuse and recycle, according to the school&#8217;s Science Chair, Jill Carrick.</p><p>As part of the initiative, participants could bring in a plastic bottle to use in their project. In exchange, they would receive a reusable &#8220;green&#8221; shopping bag.</p><p>Roughly 30 students were busy completing projects alone or in groups to share with their peers that ranged from robots to games, and even a character from &#8220;Dr. Who.&#8221;</p><p>Will Murray was helping his 8-year-old son, Ryan, fix a small opening on the center of his robot. It was created from three cardboard boxes, duct tape and paper-towel rolls. The Wilkes-Barre Township boy said he hopes to one day become a roboticist.</p><p>&#8220;I just love robots so much,&#8221; Ryan said as he fastened blue plastic, dart-like pieces to the robot&#8217;s head for eyes.</p><p>Ryan&#8217;s mother, Gina, said she&#8217;s glad the school allows all local children to participate and use their imagination.</p><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s nice that they open (the event) up to everyone,&#8221; she said.</p><p>On the other end of the cafeteria, 13-year-old Ian Pode, of Kingston, was busy placing neon-green duct tape on his suit of armor.</p><p>Pode said he participated in the challenge last year, making a game out of cardboard. This year, he opted for a costume instead.</p><p>&#8220;Last year, some of my friends did a costume, so I thought I&#8217;d do it myself,&#8221; he said.</p><p>His costume was complete with arm cuffs fashioned out of plastic light-sabers and a helmet made of duct tape and a ginger-ale bottle. Pode said his favorite thing about the challenge is that it lets students express themselves creativity.</p><p>Some of the participants took their creativity to the next level.</p><p>About halfway through the event, Kieran Sherry decided to take his project for a test drive.</p><p>The seventh-grader created his very own Dalek, a robotic character from the television series &#8220;Dr. Who,&#8221; for the challenge, standing about five-feet tall.</p><p>Clad in bright blue duct tape with gold button-like accents, the cyborg had a toilet plunger and Nerf gun for arms, which Sherry could move once inside. By sitting on a rolling stool inside the Dalek, Sherry was able to move his project throughout the cafeteria, drawing crowds of students to see his craftsmanship.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on it at home, I brought it in today to finish it,&#8221; he said, adding that it took about a week to complete.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Colleen Ryan, 12, of Forty Fort, works on her project Saturday morning during the STEM event at Wyoming Seminary Lower School. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_StemSaturday2.jpg</photo0><caption0>Colleen Ryan, 12, of Forty Fort, works on her project Saturday morning during the STEM event at Wyoming Seminary Lower School. </caption0><photoCredit0> Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_stem-saturday-4.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">A.J. Innamorati, 9, of Bear Creek, and Doron Glynn, 7, of Kingston, work on a level-rolling game together. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_stem-saturday-4.jpg</photo1><caption1>A.J. Innamorati, 9, of Bear Creek, and Doron Glynn, 7, of Kingston, work on a level-rolling game together. </caption1><photoCredit1> Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_Stem-Saturday-3.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Mo Doherty, 7 of Kingston, works on her &#8216;Cat in a house&#8217; project Satuday morning. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_Stem-Saturday-3.jpg</photo2><caption2>Mo Doherty, 7 of Kingston, works on her &#8216;Cat in a house&#8217; project Satuday morning. </caption2><photoCredit2> Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit2></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_stemsaturday-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Wyoming Seminary student Ian Poole, 13, of Kingston, works on his suit of armor. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo3>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/web1_stemsaturday-1.jpg</photo3><caption3>Wyoming Seminary student Ian Poole, 13, of Kingston, works on his suit of armor. </caption3><photoCredit3> Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit3></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Marcella Kester</p><p>For Times Leader</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach the Times Leader newsroom at 570-829-7242 or on Twitter @TLnews.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Students show their smarts with cardboard creations at Wyoming Seminary