Shorewood High School students to attempt umbrella mosaic world record June 1

Help make an elephant out of umbrellas
Photo from Creative Commons

The Public is invited to help - bring $5 and an umbrella to the Shoreline Center - stadium at 4:30pm Friday and you can be part of history!

A group of Shorewood High School students is trying to break a world record and need the public's help in doing so.

The Schools for Kenya club at Shorewood is "paying it forward" to show its appreciation for the new Shorecrest and Shorewood high schools that are being built in Shoreline by building a school for children in rural Kenya through the organization Free the Children. http://www.freethechildren.com/

The students have been given permission by Guinness Book of World Records to attempt to break the record for the largest "umbrella mosaic."

Here's information about the current record holder.

They plan to form the shape of an African elephant with umbrellas raised at the same time and held for 10 minutes. To break the record, they need to fill that elephant body with about 2,400 umbrella-carrying participants.

The record attempt will be held at Shoreline Stadium at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 1, and the public is invited. Donations will be accepted, the students have already raised more than $6,000 toward their goal of $8,500.

Driving Directions to Shoreline Stadium:

• South on I-5; exit west at 205th (#177)
• Turn right onto 205th; turn left onto 5th Ave NE; turn right onto 185th Street
• Stadium parking lot on your right.
• North on I-5; exit west at 175th (#176)
• Turn right onto 175th; turn left onto 5th Ave NE; turn left onto 185th Street
• Stadium parking lot on your right