Video Of The Week - US First Lady (And Kids) Set New Guinness World Record

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Ever since US first lady Michelle Obama has come to the White House, she has been focused on how to make American kids healthier. Her 'Let's Move' campaign launched in 2010 to promote physical fitness and encourage healthy eating in children is responsible for countless organic gardens and several fun organized activities. On October 11th, she took her message to a global level, by asking kids from all over the world to participate in the fun activity of jumping jacks!

Organized in conjunction with the National Geographic Magazine, the first lady asked kids everywhere to do jumping jacks for one minute anytime within a 24-hour period that began at 3pm on October 11th. To jump start the event, the First Lady invited 464 elementary and middle school students to join her at the White House for a full minute of rigorous jumping jacks!

While they did a fine job, kids from all across the nation and world didn't disappoint either - A total of 300,265 of them participated, shattering the previous record of 20,000! Now all they have to do, is keep moving!

Resources: Christian Science Monitor.com

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244 Comments
  • olivia16over 14 years
    It is so cool that she got all those kids and herself to break a world record. Those kids and First Lady herself must have felt really good when they did that! I am so proud of them myself.
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    • 14Reganover 14 years
      I think thats really cool! Thats alot of kids who joined her in jumping jacks. I didn't think first lady could break the record that changes my perspective.
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      • Hannah29over 14 years
        This is a fun article,because kids don't get the excise they need.First Lady is doing a big differnce on kids excising!! That's cool that she can ecorge other kids. First lady is connecting to 1 of our IB units....Risk-Taker!!!!:)
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        • greenappleover 14 years
          whoa that is a lot of kids
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          • 18morgover 14 years
            I think it is cool to get 20,000 kids doing jumping jacks but it's off the chart amazing to get 300,265 kids doing jumping jacks!!! I think it was a good thing for first lady:Michelle Obama to host this jumping jack party to incorage kids to come. I think it is cool that people around the world came to jump!!!
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            • 1GAGEover 14 years
              It's awesome that Michelle Oboma is tryig to help kids get healthier and have fun while doing it
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              • michael12over 14 years
                Wow that is asome that Michelle Obam made the lets play. i thank it is super cool
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                • Chandler20over 14 years
                  I think that it is cool that the first lady got all of those kids from around the nation to do all of those jumping and break a world record.That's good that thoes kids did that ,because all of them lost weight.
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                  • whoyoulookingatover 14 years
                    wow im amazed i didnt read it thou
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                      superrrstarrr123over 14 years
                      totally
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