By Chen Feng-li and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerHushan Elementary School in Nantou County’s Caotun Township (草屯) on Thursday last week completed a 10 million rope-skips challenge, raising NT$80,000 to foster creativity in children and for books. It was the second such event after the school’s rope-skipping challenge the previous semester, when it received NT$1 for every lap of the school’s 200m track a student or faculty member completed while skipping, the school said. It raised NT$100,000 from the Lotus Light Charity Society in Taiwan over the semester, it said. School dean Yeh Chao-chi (葉兆祺) said that many of the younger students were further incentivized to complete the challenge, as older students had written software to count each skip. We observed an improvement in student interactions over the semester, which is an added bonus, Yeh said.

Source: Taipei Times December 31, 2018 15:56 UTC