Unstacking

171 student exhibits need almost 90 tables. How do we make them ready?

First step: Take the tables off the delivery carts, unfold their legs, and set them upright.

Here volunteers from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids are doing this first step. Go Warriors!

Positioning

Washington High School volunteers carry a table into position.

Papering

Next step: Cover the tables with paper, to provide an attractive and splinter-free surface for the exhibits.

Here Washington High School volunteers make it look easy and fun.

Papering & Skirting

At left, volunteers cut the paper to length. At right, others are retrieving table skirts from their storage boxes.

Skirting

The volunteers have spread the skirts around these tables in preparation for stapling.

The skirts make the tables look better and let the students stash stuff underneath.

Stapling Skirts

Boy scouts from Troop 83 staple skirts to tables.

The end is in sight

Some of the exhibit tables, almost ready for the junior exhibitors to arrive in the morning.

Good fences make good neighbors

The exhibit tables are 8 feet long; most exhibits are allowed 4 feet of table. Boy scouts from Troop 29 draw the boundary lines on the paper covering.