American Students Create a "Soccer-themed" Quilt and Win a Trip to Berlin, Germany to Watch World Cup Soccer
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Graders from Beaverton Oregon, created a quilt, entered an international contest and received an all-expense paid trip to Berlin, Germany to watch World Cup Soccer and to meet international soccer and rock stars. Wow, How cool is that!
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Students from the German-American School of Portland wrote original poems about soccer on fabric and sewed the fabric into a quilt and submitted it into the international competition—their project was the only one entered from the United States. And it was voted one of the best of the 1,659 projects submitted in the international contest., according to the Beaverton Valley Times.
"The article states, "There is nothing more exciting for soccer fans than the World Cup competition.
That excitement helped 11 soccer-loving students at the German-American School of Portland to win an international contest that landed them at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the site of this year’s month-long “futball” tournament.
The students sewed a quilt that was chosen as one of the 100 best projects from among 1,659 submitted by German schools from 49 countries. It was the only U.S. project that was chosen as a winner.
The German-American School is in Beaverton at 3900 S.W. Murray Blvd.
The contest, which was hosted by the 2006 World Cup Conference, in cooperation with a number of German institutions, was called “Talents 2006-FIFA World Cup in School.” The theme was “a time to make friends,” which the local students decided to convey through poems mounted on a quilt.
“It’s a unique contest and they will not repeat it,” said teacher Kathrin Schmidt, who helped the kids with the project and accompanied them to Berlin for a five-day trip in May.
The students first wrote poems — in German of course — about “all the nations, friendship and soccer,” and put the poems together on a green and white patchwork quilt.
“We thought of a poem and we wrote it on a piece of paper first and then we wrote it on a piece of cloth and then we sewed it on together,” said fourth-grader MarieFriess.
Read more of the article here.
(Photo courtesy of the Beaverton Valley Times.)
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
Students from the German-American School of Portland wrote original poems about soccer on fabric and sewed the fabric into a quilt and submitted it into the international competition—their project was the only one entered from the United States. And it was voted one of the best of the 1,659 projects submitted in the international contest., according to the Beaverton Valley Times.
"The article states, "There is nothing more exciting for soccer fans than the World Cup competition.
That excitement helped 11 soccer-loving students at the German-American School of Portland to win an international contest that landed them at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the site of this year’s month-long “futball” tournament.
The students sewed a quilt that was chosen as one of the 100 best projects from among 1,659 submitted by German schools from 49 countries. It was the only U.S. project that was chosen as a winner.
The German-American School is in Beaverton at 3900 S.W. Murray Blvd.
The contest, which was hosted by the 2006 World Cup Conference, in cooperation with a number of German institutions, was called “Talents 2006-FIFA World Cup in School.” The theme was “a time to make friends,” which the local students decided to convey through poems mounted on a quilt.
“It’s a unique contest and they will not repeat it,” said teacher Kathrin Schmidt, who helped the kids with the project and accompanied them to Berlin for a five-day trip in May.
The students first wrote poems — in German of course — about “all the nations, friendship and soccer,” and put the poems together on a green and white patchwork quilt.
“We thought of a poem and we wrote it on a piece of paper first and then we wrote it on a piece of cloth and then we sewed it on together,” said fourth-grader MarieFriess.
Read more of the article here.
(Photo courtesy of the Beaverton Valley Times.)
