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Johnston's Summit Sixth-Graders Sink or Swim in Races

Sixth-grade students at Summit Middle School took part in Regatta Races on Wednesday.

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For the second year in a row, sixth-grade students combined science and history to compete in Regatta Races.

The event, a culmination of an Egyptian unit, pitted 13 classrooms against each other in two rounds of races.

Students were split into teams and charged with engineering a boat made of cardboard, plastic or garbage bags and duct tape.

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The result was a fun, albeit wet, morning at the Summit pool.

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