At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, seniors Dinara Manafova, Maddie Kaempfe and Jamie Gardner entered the cafeteria with aspirations of raising funds for Gateway Children’s Charity while their peers earned extra credit participating in a series of minute-to-win-it activities called the DECA Olympics.

Ten pairs of participants competed, in nine rounds of competitions that eliminated a partnership each round. Competitions included a pie-eating contest, knocking down cups with rubber bands, trying to get a cookie from the top of the contestant’s forehead to their mouth without using hands and racing to wrap the partner’s entire body with toilet paper.

“We came up with the games for each round by googling minute-to-win-it games and watching different youtube videos. Some of them we improvised, like the whipped cream pie-eating contest and the one where the contestant had to pick up cotton balls by putting Vaseline on their nose,” Manafova said.

Juniors Zack Quoss and Nick Wotruba won the entire competition by beating the partnership of juniors Molly Thomas and Nicole Brautigam by getting a louder applause at the end of the final round. Since there was only one Qdoba gift card and one trophy, Wotruba and Quoss then competed against each other in a balloon-popping contest to win the prize. Quoss won by quickly biting all of the balloons to pop them.

“My favorite part was definitely winning,” Wotruba said. “Even though Quoss beat me in the balloon-popping, we still split the prize. He got the gift card and I got the trophy, which was obviously the best of the two prizes.”

Senior Audrey Frost and junior Jordan Winn were eliminated after losing to Wotruba and Quoss in rock-paper-scissors after a tie in seventh round dice-stacking competition.

“I didn’t really care that we got eliminated because I had a really good time. It was so funny to watch everyone compete and even funnier watching everyone crack up laughing,” Frost said.