A couple of plastic-wrapped principals from Gaithersburg probably expected they’d end up covered in yolk after playing “Egg Russian Roulette” in front of their students.
But the Fields Road Elementary School administrators likely didn’t think they’d get a shout-out from the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon gave the Montgomery County Public Schools principals a nod for staging their own version of the game of chance that Fallon plays on his late-night show. In the recurring feature, Fallon and a guest take turns smashing eggs—some hard-boiled and some raw—against their heads.
The leadership at Fields Road had promised to follow in Fallon’s footsteps if the school reached a Read-A-Thon fundraising goal. And Principal Erica Williams and Assistant Principal Kristi Ricca were true to their word, the Associated Press reported.
“We got ahold of a clip,” Fallon said on his show last week.
The short video shows Williams and Ricca, dressed in plastic ponchos and shower caps, cracking raw eggs against their foreheads as a crowd of students roared.
Fallon also had some good news for Fields Road: Reddi-wip, which produces canned whipped topping, would make a donation to match the $13,000 the school had already raised during its Read-A-Thon, bringing the total to $26,000.
Thanks, @jimmyfallon! In light of the donation, we'll let the "Washington, DC" slide. ?? https://t.co/kWWd9a2wdt
— City of Gaithersburg (@GburgMD) April 22, 2017
Students practice the art of bread-baking
Hundreds of Montgomery County public school students this week baked loaves of bread for a local food pantry.
The fourth-graders from six elementary schools headed to Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus in Rockville on Monday and Wednesday to watch a flour company representative demonstrate bread baking. Their homework assignment was to try their hand at it and donate one of their loaves to provide French toast, croutons and other items for people in need. The students not only learned about the chemistry of bread-making, but got to experience giving back to the community.
Hundreds of students from local elementary schools this week baked bread to donate to those in need. Credit: Carlo Pizarro.
Local students win NASA contest on programming robot swarms
Montgomery College students defeated 14 other college teams earlier this month in a virtual “Swarmathon” robotics competition held by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The team of 12 computer science and engineering students created computer code for programming swarms of robots to collect resources without human supervision or maps, according to a press release. To do so, the students wrote algorithms that could be useful in other situations, such as during a hazardous waste spill.
The competition took place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from April 18 to 20.
