The sound of plastic cups clicking together circled the globe Thursday and could be heard loud and clear at Roncalli Middle School in the afternoon. It was the second annual World Sport Stacking ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

Students at Katonah Elementary School took part in the second annual World Sport Stacking Association competition to achieve a Guinness world record in cup stacking. The school was just one of many ...

Cup stacking sounds like something you’d do at the kitchen sink, not in, say, the school gym. But, on certain days, Karen Shute’s physical education class at M.E. Pearson Elementary School in Kansas ...

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Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

It was lunchtime at the first Vermont Family StackFest competition at Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond. A crowd of kids and adults were gathered in the cafeteria, munching on hot dogs and baked ...