Longest line of coins-world record set by THINK Together
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There is a nice "YOU TUBE" video on the link shown
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Longest line of coins-world record set by THINK Together
FONTANA, CA, USA -- Close to 2,000 students and 200 chaperones
worked nearly six and a half hours to lay down a 65 mile chain
of pennies on the racetrack at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana,
CA, setting a new World Record for the longest line of coins.
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Photo: Southern California students who participate
in THINK Together after-school programs set a new
World Record using more than 5,491,200 pennies to
fill more than 3,432 cardboard trays, each one
connected by a penny in the corner, to create a chain
of pennies more than 65 miles long on the racetrack
at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA.
The students outdid themselves because in all, they ended up
collecting more than 15.8 million pennies or $158,722.63 worth
of change. That is nearly 188 miles of pennies.
Youth in Fort Scott, Kansas set the previous record for the
Longest line of coins with a 40 mile penny chain last summer.
All of the change collected, including nearly 5.5 million
pennies used to accomplish the World Record feat, will go
directly into funding activities for the free after-school
program which targets at-risk and low-income students.
Validating the students' accomplishment were official
judges: Dave Allen, vice president of Auto Club
Speedway; and Marc Cipres, Security Manager, UPS.
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Photo: Southern California students in THINK Together
after-school programs collected more than 15.8 million
pennies during February and March and then in the
course of six and half hours 2,000 of those students
used nearly 5.5 million of the coins to lay down a
chain of pennies 65 miles long on the racetrack at
Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA setting a new World
Record for the longest chain of pennies.
Serving as additional honorary judges for the event
were; Matt Mullins, star of The CW's "Kamen
Rider: Dragon Knight;" Gerson Mayen, Chivas USA soccer
player; Leona Aronoff-Sadacca, THINK Together board
member; and Michelle Babin, an alum of America's Next
Top Model(TM) and a THINK Together program leader.
In early February, more than 35,000 students in THINK
Together's after-school programs throughout Los Angeles,
Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino County launched a
penny drive, "Miles of Change," to commemorate the
Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth; and in
recognition of the Lincoln Penny's Centennial, the
students set out to collect at least 8.5 million
pennies, or 100 miles of pennies.
"President Obama and his wife Michelle remind us that
people, each doing their individual part, have the
collective power to create miles of change. And it's
in that spirit that we designed the 'Miles of Change'
community engagement project so our students could
experience that first-hand," said Randy Barth, founder
and CEO of THINK Together.
Larry Tenney, THINK Together's chief public affairs
officer and the director of the "Miles of Change"
project said, "Among other things, we hoped this
broad-scale, unprecedented community engagement
project would bring much attention to THINK Together
and our program throughout the region and it appears
we've done just that. "
'Miles of Change' was successful because our students
and their families, our staff, our fans and our
community partners including Auto Club Speedway, Bank
of America, AMR, Brinks, Burrtec Disposal, Chivas USA,
Univision, UPS, Yakult and others came together with
a common goal, each doing their individual part."
"Close to 40,000 people were involved in creating
'Miles of Change.' Their efforts have demonstrated to
our students what's possible," added Tenney.
THINK Together, a non-profit, is the largest provider
of academically-focused after-school programs in
California serving more than 35,000 low-income and
at-risk students at 200+ sites across a four-county
footprint of Southern California (Los Angeles, Orange,
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties).
THINK is an acronym that stands for Teaching, Helping,
Inspiring & Nurturing Kids.
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