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Local teachers scrambled for $5,000 worth of cash during the Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game on Saturday night.
The first-ever Dash for Cash event pitted 10 Sioux Falls area teachers against each other to grab as many single dollar bills as possible in less than five minutes. The money, meant to go toward either their classroom or school, was donated by CU Mortgage Direct.
Many of the teachers said that they were planning on using the cash to get flexible seating, such as standing desks or wobble chairs, or document cameras so they could upload lessons online.
"It just gives them options to be comfortable when they're in the classroom," Patrick Heyen, a seventh-grade math and science teacher at Memorial Middle School, said, explaining flexible seating.