Since then, the mannequin challenge has gone viral. It’s been copied by everyone from pro athletes to Broadway stars to prison inmates. And now that the Miami-Dade Police Department has done its own mannequin challenge, it’s safe to say that this meme has peaked. So let’s take a moment and remember how it all began: with a bunch of bored (but highly creative) teenagers.
Here are the local high schools that pulled off the best mannequin challenges:
1. Flanagan High School
Flanagan's HOSA club for future premed and nursing students went all out for this one: There's one girl who's fainting, another who's getting the Heimlich maneuver, and yet another who appears to be getting CPR.
Flanagan HOSA Mannequin Challenge pic.twitter.com/JoyuAdlGqw
— Flanagan HOSA (@flanagan_hosa) November 10, 2016
2. Coral Springs High School
Shoutout to Coral Springs for keeping it real: They recreated a girl-on-girl fight scene, complete with the kids lining up to film it on their cell phones.
#MannequinChallenge CSHS pic.twitter.com/TZHNxFMWEn
— January 5th (@papinaex3) November 4, 2016
3. Hollywood Hills High School
The flag football team used the mannequin challenge as an ingenious form of viral advertising to promote their car wash. Someone hire them ASAP.
Come out and support the Flag football team @ Hollywood Hills High school from 8am-2pm only $5#MannequinChallenge pic.twitter.com/N5Pa6v3bbM
— jess (@jessenia_xox) November 5, 2016
4. Boca High School
Boca High's cheerleading team is no joke. You have to be very, very athletic to hold some of these poses for more than ten seconds.
#MannequinChallenge by the Bobcat cheer team. @bocaratonhs pic.twitter.com/dtgOi2bKUY
— Boca_High_Athletics (@AthleticBobcat) November 14, 2016
5. Miramar High School
The boy's basketball team's take on the mannequin challenge gets off to a slow start, but the guy at the end who's hanging from the basket makes it all worth watching.
Miramar Basketball #MannequinChallenge pic.twitter.com/tzKEnKPszo
— Lil Ian Vert ++® (@LILIANVERT) November 5, 2016
6. J.P. Taravella High School
Drama kids obviously have an unfair advantage over everyone else, since they have props and costumes at their disposal. But you've still got to give credit where credit is due — this clearly required an impressive amount of coordination.
Check out the JPT drama department mannequin challenge!! https://t.co/xNpyNCXwtP
— JPT Drama (@JPTDrama) November 16, 2016
