A.G. Gancarski
The Jacksonville City Council, on Tuesday night, honored students from Ed White High School’ for creating the “mannequin challenge,” which went viral in the way “planking” once did.
Among those who participated in the “mannequin challenge“, according to the proclamation: former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who might have been better off spending that time in the Rust Belt campaigning.
Councilwoman Anna Brosche noted that the space station variant on the mannequin challenge really hit her, given that it was started in the local community.
Councilman Doyle Carter, an alumnus of White, likewise extolled the students.
The Ed White principal, speaking for the students, noted their surprise that the concept went viral.
The concept started in class, with a student just standing still, and then others came in and did their own variants.
The mannequin challenge was intended as an art class project; however, it clearly became so much more
