Convincing physical education professionals that a bunch of plastic cups can strengthen athletic skills is a tough sell. At first. This was Daniel Wolff’s challenge Wednesday morning during a workshop ...

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — Two health and PE teachers in Woonsocket are doing all they can for their kids when it comes to giving them something to look forward to, and boosting their confidence. About ...

If you know what Cup Stacking is, you're probably a parent or a kid who graduated recently. Speed stacks have been around for more than 18 years, but it's blowing up in a big way. Not only has sport ...

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.

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 ...

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — It was cup stacking time again at St. Mary’s Elementary in Joplin. Part of the school’s annual “stack up” event where kindergarten through 5th grade kids were part of a world record ...