The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee was the first ever decided by a spell-off, in which two contestants had 90 seconds apiece to correctly spell as many words as possible. In the video, young Vikram manages to spell 15 of his words correctly in the time, while Harini managed to
This is a video of Basha High School students participating in the school’s annual paper toss down a stairwell to celebrate the end of the school year and graduation. That’s a lot of trees. When is this tradition going to be updated to an iPad drop? Because that’s something I’d
This is a video of university students from Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands performing a beautiful orchestral cover of Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ (aren’t they all?) at graduation. Each student arranged their own parts individually, then came together to combine them all into the piece you see here. Most impressive. For
These are several TikTok videos from Riley Hansen, who lives in an old school. Apparently he and several others bought the building and land for only $15,000 (a steal!) and have put about $100,000 into it so far making it more hospitable. I don’t know about you, but I would
Because some news networks aren’t afraid to tackle truly hard-hitting stories, this is a video from Toronto News CP24 featuring an interview with young resident Carter Trozzolo, who’s exhausted from shoveling snow all morning. He says not only did he shovel his own house, but also the homes of neighbors
This is a US map detailing the average morning start time for public schools by state. As you can see, after factoring in a bus ride, any state that isn’t at least healthy urine yellow is starting what would be considered by any ethics committee weighing in on the subject
This is some security cam footage from the sensory room of Future Stars Academy in Wentzville, Missouri capturing the moment a flood caused the door to finally give way and water to rush in (although to the door AND window’s credit it appears not a drop came in prior despite
Because who doesn’t want to look delectable, this is a shot of Redditor clairanic, who crafted a prom dress and matching parasol out of snack-size Doritos Nacho Cheese bags collected by her and her friends from their high school’s cafeteria over the course of a year, and assembled over a