Pine Lake Middle School seems to have a thing for records – and ice cream.

On Thursday, Feb. 20, students in the after school program created a banana split 100 feet long.

“We decided to do this after starting a tradition last year of breaking records,” said Tom O’Neill, the site manager for the IMPACT program at the school, which provides after school tutoring, homework and enrichment programs. “Last year we made a 10 foot by 2 foot ice cream sandwich. We wanted to do something similar and bigger.”

According to O’Neill, the Washington record for a banana split is 3 miles long. While they know there was no way to touch that record, they thought they could set one for Issaquah.

“We don’t know if it’s official because it’s so ridiculous,” O’Neill said. “A thorough Google search turned up nothing.”

As part of the banana split effort, students used more than 20 gallons of ice cream, 200 bananas and many cans of whip cream.

The construction took place at Beaver Lake Middle School in Issaquah, and students from Challenger Elementary’s Club Connection camp came over to help with the project.

“The kids absolutely loved it, both helping create it and eating it,” O’Neill said. “This find of thing fits right in with one of our missions, which is to create unique opportunities that kids wouldn’t get to have anywhere else.”

Kelly Montgomery: 425-391-0363; kmontgomery@issaquahreporter.com