Kids Building Pizza Box Layouts with the Northern Utah Division of the NMRA and MRS Hobby Shop

For years the Northern Utah Division of the NMRA has had a program where kids build "pizza box" layouts in N scale. As many as 50 at a time!!
Over the years, perhaps 15 years? the Northern Utah Division of the NMRA has run programs to involve boys and girls in model railroading. Boxcar races, demo derby, and layout building. In one of these programs, they hand over a pizza box sized piece of extruded foam and a loop of n scale track and see what the kids come up with guidance from their parents and a member of the division. BUT program has really taken off! Now they run the program on weekends at the MRS hobby shop in Sandy. (Salt Lake County in Utah) The program has spilled out of the workshop spaces into the open mall area and now filling that space to the point where they need to have two sessions! At almost 30 kids per session! And those are always filled up in advanced!
This is so successful that Walthers is covering it on their catalog. Hundreds of kids have now built N scale pizza box layouts! What a great way to get new modelers involved with model railroading! HUM... perhaps more clubs can duplicate this fun program!