Magnet Exchange 2024

We are pleased to be participating in the second annual National Ceramic Magnet Exchange! This year, 93 schools are participating nation wide. For this year’s magnet exchange we chose dinosaurs to represent our region. Our school is located in Cherry Hill, NJ; our neighboring township is Haddonfield. In 1858, hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield when he heard about “some big bones” that were found, but never investigated, twenty years prior. Intrigued, Foulke re-discovered the quarry and hired a crew of men to help unearth the skeleton throughout that summer and into the fall. As it would turn out at the time, this discovery was the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever excavated anywhere in the world. This newly discovered dinosaur species was named the Hadrosaurus after the town in which it was founded in. This dig site would become “ground zero” for the beginning of the study of paleontology. Visitors can still visit this dig site today and visit the Hadrosaurus skeleton, which is displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia – just a few miles over the bridge.