Glen Acres Elementary School students in Lafayette, Indiana, will have a new sport to play during recess thanks to a group from Purdue University.
Students from the Department of Building Construction Management in the College of Technology spent the afternoon Oct. 2 building a Gaga dodge ball pit.
“We’re trying to do more of these things and get out into the community and build stuff,” Evan Elliott, a junior in the program, told the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
The game is a variant of dodge ball that is played with one ball in a large octagon or hexagon called a Gaga pit. It combines dodging, striking, running and jumping while hitting opponents with a ball below the knee.
Students in the Mechanical Contractors Association organization and the Building Construction Management Learning Community coordinated the project.
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(Photo from the Journal and Courier)