This special edition box of Lucky Charms is a dream come true for Principal Gerry Brooksbecause he only likes the marshmallow pieces and doesn't want any of the plain oat cerealgetting in his way. Unfortunately, General Mills only makes a few thousand of these specialboxes every so often, which makes them very difficult to find and very expensive, too. That'swhy Lefty McGoo is challenging you to come up with another way to help Principal Brooksenjoy his "marshmallows only" version of Lucky Charms anytime he gets a sweet tooth. Whether your plan for helping Principal Brooks is more like an invention or more like astrategy, Lefty McGoo can't wait to see your creative solutions for separating the colorfulmarshmallows from the rest of the Lucky Charms cereal. Share your ideas with us bysending in your videos, sketches, digital diagrams, prototypes, written descriptions orwhatever else you think will help us understand how you plan to tackle this challenge -- anddon't forget to fill us in on what happens to all of the plain pieces of cereal! Lefty McGoo isdefinitely NOT cool with wasting food. Our charity goal for this post is 25 responses... so, if 25 people send us their responses tothis prompt, we’ll donate $100 to help No Kid Hungry make sure students have the foodthey need to stay healthy and keep learning. There are several different ways to submit your response, so please be sure to follow yourteacher's instructions. Photo Credit: General Mills

MONDAY, APRIL 27

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

This might look like a bunch of silly string floating in the ocean, but it's actually a deep-seapredator called an Apolemia siphonophore, which is related to the jellyfish. Marine biologistsbelieve that this one is a record-setting 49 feet in diameter, which is why Lefty McGoo issending you deep down to the Ningaloo Canyons off the coast of West Australia to interviewthis remarkable creature. Get your gear on and your questions ready! Share your interview with us any way you'd like. You could write it down like a transcript,record it like a news interview or come up with some other creative way to bring us up tospeed on this fascinating find. Good luck figuring out where to hold your microphone,though... Our charity goal for this post is 25 responses... so, if 25 people send us their responses tothis prompt, we’ll donate $100 to help No Kid Hungry make sure students have the foodthey need to stay healthy and keep learning. There are several different ways to submit your response, so please be sure to follow yourteacher's instructions. Photo Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

Imagine that you just started a new job working for a greeting card company. Your bossgives you this photograph and asks you to turn it into as many different cards as possible.What kinds of greeting cards would you create? What would they say inside? How wouldthe words and envelopes look? Would you add anything to the picture on the front or leaveit just like this?⠀

Dream up your ideas and share them with Lefty McGoo any way you'd like. You can useyour writing skills to put together the plan you would share with your boss. You can use yourart skills to draw a diagram of each card. You could even make prototypes of your cards andsend each one to someone special. No matter what you send us, we can't wait to see whatyou'll create! Our charity goal for this post is 25 responses... so, if 25 people send us their responses tothis prompt, we’ll donate $100 to help No Kid Hungry make sure students have the foodthey need to stay healthy and keep learning. There are several different ways to submit your response, so please be sure to follow yourteacher's instructions. Photo Credit: Erda Estramera

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

Oh, no! Looks like this red Danbo has the blues. What do you think happened? Let's checkand see if there is anything we can do to help... Lefty McGoo challenges you to dream up how a conversation with Danbo might go. Whatwould be a good way for you to start things off? ⠀⠀

Share your Danbo dialogue with Lefty McGoo by writing it out like a script or by drawing it ina series of frames with speech bubbles just like a comic book. You could even act out theconversation in a video or turn it into a story or song. Whatever you're in the mood to try, goahead and give it a shot - Just find your own special way to be a good friend to Danbo andhave fun getting creative with it! Our charity goal for this post is 25 responses... so, if 25 people send us their responses tothis prompt, we’ll donate $100 to help No Kid Hungry make sure students have the foodthey need to stay healthy and keep learning. There are several different ways to submit your response, so please be sure to follow yourteacher's instructions. Photo Credit: Canva

Today's Lefty McGoo challenge is actually a Rube Goldberg challenge! Rube Goldberg wasa prolific cartoonist famous for inventing overly complex ways to accomplish simple tasks.Now NRG and Rube Goldberg, Inc. are challenging families everywhere to create a RubeGoldberg machine that takes 10-20 steps to drop a bar of soap in someone's hand. Are youup for the challenge? Official contest entries must be videos uploaded to YouTube and emailed torubefamilychallenge@rubegoldberg.com by May 31, but Lefty McGoo is also excited to geta "behind the scenes" look at your creative process, so you can send us your planningsketches, digital diagrams, trial-and-error videos or anything else you'd like to share. Wecan't wait to see all the wild ways everyone will find to deliver their bars of soap! Our charity goal for this post is 25 responses... so, if 25 people send us their responses tothis prompt, we’ll donate $100 to help No Kid Hungry make sure students have the foodthey need to stay healthy and keep learning. There are several different ways to submit your response, so please be sure to follow yourteacher's instructions. Photo Credit: USPS

FRIDAY, MAY 1