The Cereal Box Challenge is back and it's getting bigger every year.
Six area schools with the Greater Essex County District School Board are competing to collect the most cereal boxes for breakfast programs and other community organizations.
Talbot Trail Public School is one of those schools and the front entrance was filled with 143 leaf bags that contain boxes and boxes of cereal.
Ultimately, it's not the number of boxes, or even leaf bags that are filled that matter — it's the grams-per-student raised that makes the winning school which helps smaller schools compete against larger schools.
Chair of the Public School Board Kim McKinley was on hand Monday at Talbot Trail to help load the bags of cereal onto a bus.
"In the last two years, the amount of cereal that this school has brought in has doubled what they had brought in from a couple of years ago," says McKinley.
Talbot Trail Public School students bring out leaf bags filled with cereal boxes for the annual Cereal Box Challenge on November 27, 2017. (photo by AM800's Kimberley Johnson)
This is the 15th year for the competition which started November 1.
This week, bags will be collected from each school and distributed to over 30 Essex school breakfast programs, and community organizations.