These are two of a series of videos made by faculty and students at various Twin Cities area schools as part of a contest to get a local furniture store to help them improve their teacher's lounge. These are my two favorite videos of the bunch.
Nellie Stone Johnson Community School, in North Minneapolis, an area you will know from this blog because of the tornado that went through there about a year ago:
Edison High School, in Nordeast, Minneapolis, MN, which is the part of the Twin Cities where much of Amanda's family originally comes from (some still live there):
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