Media Literacy Blog: Boy wins $10,000 for toy rollercoaster

Friday, December 7, 2007

Boy wins $10,000 for toy rollercoaster

Ian Culhane won $10,000 for creating a 7-foot tall roller coaster out of K'NEX pieces. Pretty cool for a ten year old, don't you think? The child's creation is on display at Toys "R" Us in Time Square. There, he accepted the prize from the president of K'NEX. Ian, who started playing with K'NEX when he was four, was one of thousands of children ages six to twelve who entered this anual contest. Ian started this project last summer. Using six thousand out of his fifteen thousand K'NEX pieces to assemble the roller coaster. While he was dissapointed he couldn't spend any of his prize money, his father gave him $100 to spend at a toy store. What will he buy? More plastic building parts.

If you want to learn more about this story then go to http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/odd/2007/12/07/ODD.Prize.Toy/?cvqh=itn_toy

1 comments:

raynebow said...: Thanks, it took forever and a day to do that project! And it was okay to include Mrs. Stan's name because it's not her whole name! ;]; December 16, 2007 at 12:47 PM

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