By Emelia Richling
On some arbitrary day in the fall of 2019, a funfetti cupcake with white icing and pink roses found its way to Chip Bahe’s desk after a birthday party held in his advisement. During his second period Careers class, the cupcake was left on a filing cabinet. Over the course of six days, it would remain unnoticed.
“Honestly, I just set it up there and forgot about it,” said Bahe, Careers and Introduction to Business teacher.
After about a week, when the second period class noticed the cupcake, it instantly became a class sensation.
“We just started to wonder what it would look like after a month and then two months,” Bahe said.
As the weeks passed, it became a source of amusement for the class in addition to an experiment.
“Students used to go up there every couple weeks to see what it looked like,” said Dani Matrisciano, junior and former Careers student. “It became so hard that you could just hit it on the table, but it always looked the same way it did on the first day.”
Throughout those cold fall months that faded into snowy winter days, the cupcake experiment began to unite the class
“We had a lot of kids in that class who participated in different activities,” Bahe said. “It was a neat way to bring people together.”
Nearly a year later, the cupcake still sits on the same filing cabinet in mint condition, a subtle reminder that friendships can be derived from the unlikeliest of situations and that they never grow old.
Students continue to ask about it, even though they haven’t been in Bahe’s classes for months. During summer weights, on the first day of school and over the several weeks that school has been in session, the cupcake has still been a topic of conversation, an experiment and a way to mold a group of students together, although the cupcake has remained free of mold.
“And who would have thought that you could do it with a cupcake?” Bahe said.
*Photo Courtesy by Emily Krupicka
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