Author Archives: toneads
Most Number Of Skips In One Hour
ITE College East open house on 26 Aug 2012 was packed with 40 free workshops from cooking to home DIY, and student performances throughout the campus. A highlight of the Fiesta 2012 was the college’s attempt to rewrite Singapore’s one-hour skipping record. About 700 people gathered at the hall and carpark, and pushed themselves to accumulate a total of 1,240,736 ... Read More »
Longest Plate Spinning Rally
Grace Orchard School provides special education to those with mild intellectual disability or autism. On their 10th anniversary celebration on 25 Aug 2012, many students proved to be adept at spinning a plastic plate at the end of wooden stick. A dozen boys from Raffles Institution helped with organising the record attempt as well as training participants in the skill ... Read More »
Most Number Of Paper Fishes Folded In One Hour
Sea of Hope was initiated by some youths of Millenia Institute to raise funds for the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund. On 24 Aug 2012, about 1,300 students from the school gathered at the school hall and canteen and in one hour they folded 77,776 origami angel fish out of the little squares of used paper. The angel ... Read More »
Largest Display Of Voice Embedded Cards
Pupils of Guangyang Primary School were each given a card containing an audio chip that can record for a few seconds. They were told to record their wish for Singapore and then draw or decorate the card. 1,140 cards were collected back after the National Day and displayed at the school hall on 21 Aug 2012, measuring 8.3m by 3.7m. ... Read More »
Most Number Of People Running In Synchronised Steps
When we were told that an army group of over a thousand people wants to run in synchronised steps, we wondered if it is even possible. In a small group, all runners just have to listen to the ‘left-right’ call of the leader, but with a huge group many callers are needed and it would be a task to synchronise ... Read More »
