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.

The sport involves stacking nine to 12 specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible.

It was lunchtime at the first Vermont Family StackFest competition at Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond. A crowd of kids and adults were gathered in the cafeteria, munching on hot dogs and baked ...

The sound of plastic cups clicking together circled the globe Thursday and could be heard loud and clear at Roncalli Middle School in the afternoon. It was the second annual World Sport Stacking ...

These kids gathered in the living room, their eyes twinkling with excitement as they prepared for the cup-stacking challenge. The game started with the cups arranged in a neat pyramid shape, each ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. The First Years Stack & Count Cups come with eight colorful ...

Students at Katonah Elementary School took part in the second annual World Sport Stacking Association competition to achieve a Guinness world record in cup stacking. The school was just one of many ...

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 ...