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MILLTOWN \u2014 For the Red Clay School District, Monday evening was literally one for the record books.<\/p>\n

After months of work in classrooms across the district and a few days of painstaking engineering, a stack of LEGO bricks towers high over John Dickinson High School outside of Wilmington.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s made out of more than 500,000 of the small plastic bricks. It weighs almost a ton. And it\u2019s exactly 112 feet, 11 \u00beinches tall.<\/p>\n

The more than 10-story height makes it officially the tallest structure made of interlocking toy bricks ever built, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow. Just \u2014 wow,\u201d said Ralph Stormer, a Dickinson student who helped build some of the decorative exterior. \u201cYou know when you\u2019re talking about a world record it\u2019s going to be big. But seeing it now, it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every year, Red Clay puts together a \u201ctheme\u201d for the first few months of school, said Assistant Superintendent Ted Ammann, who spearheaded the tower project.<\/p>\n

This year, the district is embarking on a multimillion-dollar construction and renovation campaign, so it only made sense to make the project about building something.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought, \u2018Hey, wouldn\u2019t it be great to do something with LEGOs?\u2019 And then we started talking about trying to break this record,\u201d Ammann said. \u201cWe knew it was going to be a huge task, but I knew we were up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district held a \u201cbrick drive,\u201d calling for every student to contribute. It also held fundraisers and sought donations from numerous groups, ranging from New Castle County to Delaware Technical Community College to the YMCA.<\/p>\n

Students at every school in the district worked in the final days of the past school year and during the summer to assemble tower segments. Then, over the past few days, contractors volunteered to place the segments together, using cranes and lifts.<\/p>\n

The bricks are built up around a metal cylinder that is supported by a maze of guy-wires, but that\u2019s strictly a safety feature to prevent the structure from toppling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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