Beakerhead prize goes to Calgary Grade 6 class for aluminum-foil city

A Grade 6 class in Calgary is tops in the province when it comes to finding creative and scientific ways to use a massive spool of aluminumfoil.

The students at Sunalta Elementary beat out 112 schools around Alberta to win Beakerhead's annual Ingenuity Challenge last month.

Almost 8,000 students from kindergarten to Grade 12 were given five days to design and build creative projects based on a simple periodic table ingredient atomic number13 in the science-themed challenge.

This year's theme was: "Things are larger than life."

The submissions to Beakerhead were then evaluated by employees at Devon Canada.

The 46 students at Sunalta Elementary used 500 feet of aluminum foil for their winning submission, a model of acity.

"It's an amazing feeling, actually, just winning," said Marisa Hou, one of the students who worked on the project.

Beakerhead's flickr site has pictures of many of the other submissions.

For the last three Septembers, Beakerhead has staged "a week of spectacular fun" devoted to advancing the understanding of science and engineering as part of everyday life through art and culture.