Glanford Middle School students are feeling stronger together following a little friendly competition.
Upcycled recyclables and trash were transformed into creative fashion, when students formed teams to organize, design, build, and model their creations on a red carpet runway to the theme of "stronger together" in an event dubbed a Clash-ion Show.
"It's a great way to come together, do something that's a little outside the box and show creativity and have some fun together," said teacher Jenny Ohl. "We think it is really important that students work together in different ways, in and outside the classroom."
Ohl said the Jan. 17 Clash-ion show was designed to make the school's culture and community come alive and unique creations included projects inspired by the Minions, Squid Game, McDonald's restaurant, Warhammer and even a ballerina's tutu made from old newspapers.
"The Clash-ion show is a really fun experience, to get together as your teams in the school and just have fun and laugh," said student Juliet Majorki, who modelled the newspaper tutu for her team. Her favourite part of the experience? "Striking a pose at the end of the runway."
Twelve-year-olds Corbin Whitecross and his teammate Bodie John-Kelly made a Mark 11 space marine armour inspired by the board game Warhammer but hand-crafted out of used cardboard. They noted the armour was designed to enhance the user experience in fighting battles.
"I wouldn't have been able to do it with Bodie and some other people that worked on it," Whitecross said. Both students were proud of what they had built together as a team and just as proud of the stronger together theme they kept in mind while building it.
"It's really cool to see everyone working together to create one big final product that ends up looking really good, John-Kelly said. "It's not always about the end result, it is about the journey to get to the end result. You can't get to the end result without people with you on the journey."