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Kansas City Art Institute students Palmer Conroy and Samantha Kroll assemble the tentacles of their floating jelly-fish sculpture before testing to see if it would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Russel Hombs, a student from the Kansas City Art Institute wore a fuzzy costume as he prepared to set sail to see if his sculpture project would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Art Institute sophomore sculpture instructor Larry Buechel (left) takes a picture of Palmer Conroy and Samantha Kroll next to their floating jelly-fish sculpture before testing to see if it would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Art Institute student Sara Sal Tellini sails away in her sculpture project as students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested their projects to see if they would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Connor McCall a student at the Kansas City Art Institute tended to a smoking volcano sculpture project as he floated along at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Fifteen students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested their sculpture projects to see if they would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Each student took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Floating along in a giant cupcake, Maryianne Laury reached out to meet fellow students from the Kansas City Art Institute floating on a paper mache bed as they tested their sculpture projects to see if they would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

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A floating paper mache bed, giant cupcake and steel and wooden lounger were some of the sculpture projects that students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Maryianne Laury tosses a cupcake to a nearby friend as she floats in her giant cupcake as her and fellow students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested their sculpture projects to see if they would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Russel Hombs, a student from the Kansas City Art Institute wore a fuzzy costume as he set sail to see if his sculpture project would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Art Institute student Nick Missel floated along on his sculpture project with fellow student Chelsea Wynn during a test of the sculpture project to see if it would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Lyssandra Gallup, a student from the Kansas City Art Institute, enjoyed her picnic sculpture project as she tested it to see if it would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Tentacles from a jelly-fish sculpture framed a castle tower as it was drug into the water as students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested their sculpture projects to see if they would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Dressed as fish caught in the tentacles of an upside down jelly fish, Kansas City Art Institute students Samantha Kroll (left) and Palmer Conroy paddle with fish paddles while testing to see if it would pass the flotation test at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Fifteen students took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

Fifteen students from the Kansas City Art Institute tested their sculpture projects to see if they would pass the flotation test, including seeing how many would fit into a floating castle tower, at Shawnee Mission Lake Park on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Each of them took part in the annual sophomore flotation project that brought out ideas from sailboats to floating jelly-fish in which students rode on in the water. John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star

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