Regular practice is the key to improving focus and coordination in cup stacking. By setting aside some time every day for ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

Here’s a fun activity to bring multigenerational family members together. Children, parents, and grandparents can all practice their teamwork skills. Just like Donkey Hodie and her Grampy, families ...

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FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

Quick – take a dozen plastic cups and stack them in a pyramid, then back into a single stack again. Can you do it in just a few seconds? Then you might have what it takes to be a competitive Sport ...

To call cup stacking popular is a major understatement. "I could not believe the impact it had on students," said physical education teacher John Dunlop. "Seriously, I was floored." "It changed my ...

Americans will compete at just about anything, including eating hot dogs and rolling logs. Now, cup stacking joins that list. Robert W. Fox, 46, a former physical education teacher, promotes cup ...

Cup stacking sounds like something you’d do at the kitchen sink, not in, say, a school gym. But, on certain days, Karen Shute’s physical education class at M.E. Pearson Elementary School in Kansas ...

Today’s Fit and Well segment was one of the most fun to date! We went to Samuel E Spaght Elementary School and met PE Teacher, Ernesto Alcantara. Mr. Alcantara, or Mr A to his students and peers ...

In a growing school fad, kids are competing to take small plastic cups and stack them into formations as quickly as possible. But is it a sport? Nancy Greenleese of member station KUNC reports.