World's
Largest Post-It Note Mosaic
On Friday, November 6, 2009, 151 students
of Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville, Utah,
broke the world record for making the World's Largest Post-It
Note Mosaic, by constructing in three hours (after school
was over) a large mosaic that measured 60 feet by 40 feet
in area, used 38,400 different colored Post-It Notes, and
protrayed the theme of "Go Green". Each participating
student contributed $1.00 towards the purchase of the Post-It
Notes--which were recycled after the event.
(Click here
to see the on-line Taylorsville Journal newspaper
for more details)
According to the Book of Alternative Records
(in Europe), the former world record for the World's Largest
Post-It Note Mosaic was accomplished on June 14, 2008, when
"A colonial American flag measuring 20 feet by 40 feet
was created by using 2441 blue, 5540 red and 5093 white
Post-It notes in front of Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia."
See the following website for more information: (http://www.alternativerecords.co.uk/recorddetails.asp?recid=306&page=cat).
Previous Post-It Note displays and records
have appeared in other publications and websites-such as
in Ripley's Believe It or Not book of 2005 entitled "Planet
Eccentric", page 187.
The Book of Alternative Records lists eight
rules that must be followed for producing the World's Largest
Post-It Note Mosaic. They are: "1) All of the area
must be covered by Post-It's, and there must be no gaps
between them that would allow another Post-It to be inserted;
2) Differently colored Post-It's must be used to form some
image, text, flag or pattern, so the colors should not be
randomly distributed in the image; 3) The mosaic does not
have to be a rectangle; 4) There are no restrictions on
the time taken or the number of people involved; 5) The
number of Post-It's used must be counted and given; 6) The
dimension of the mosaic must be measured and given; 7) Good
photographs showing the whole mosaic must be provided; and
8) Additional documentation as described by the Book of
Alternative Records [on its website] must be provided."
Eisenhower Junior High School has a twenty-year
history of breaking world records. In fact, the school has
set or broken more world records than any other school in
the world, including: Largest Pan Loaf of Bread (1987),
Largest Paper Clip Chain (2004), Fastest Human Conveyor
Belt (2005), Longest Balloon Chain in One Hour (2005), Tallest
Ice Cream Cone (2005), Largest Straw Chain (2006), Tallest
Tower of Pencils (2006), and Longest Wobble Board Ensemble
(2007).
