St. George School hosts annual duck race

St. George School in Tinley Park held its annual duck race on May 28, 2024. Students earned ducks based on their iReady testing performance and weekly lessons in math and reading throughout the year and raced them based on grade level. Staff sent the ducks down a tube with water to determine the winners. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Jim Faller, head of maintenance at St. George School in Tinley Park, pours water down the shute as parent and board member James Peterson secures the duck apparatus he built for the races. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Pre-school students gathered outside the school to watch the duck races. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Peterson loads water into the ski jump part of the duck apparatus he built for the races. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Students help collect ducks after they flew out from the pipe. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Tiny ducks with numbers are flushed out by water. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Peterson shows students the winning duck for that race. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
First grade students show their spirit in duck hats and react to hearing the overall winning prize is $100. Their classmate Victoria Adams was the overall winner. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
St. George parent and board member James Peterson guides the winning students in each class during a final duck car race at the end of the event to name the overall winner and a prize of $100. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
The whole school came out to watch the duck races. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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