Piper Klekamp is no stranger to Hawaii. She visited the Aloha State with her family when she was a baby.

“I don’t remember any of it,” the fourth-grade student from Jonesburg Elementary School said.

When Piper was selected to do a presentation of Hawaii as part of JBE’s Great United States Parade on Nov. 17 at the gymnasium, she didn’t waste any time making the project.

“I was excited about it because that was one of the states I wanted,” Piper said.

A total of 33 JBE fourth-graders participated in the event. All of them created state floats out of shoe boxes and crafts and presented them in a museum-style format.

“It was fun,” JBE fourth-grade teacher Tina Cay said. “We had community supporters and families that donated stuff to go with (the projects). It was a lot of work.”

All of the students didn’t choose their assignments. They got their assignments after spinning a wheel. Each student had to present the state’s nickname, flower, bird, tree and other facts.

All but 18 states were presented in the 90-minute project. One of those states was Missouri.

“I wanted Missouri,” said Emily Biter, who worked on a presentation of North Carolina. “If I had Missouri, it would have been so easy.”

Khalli Keating learned an important fact when she worked on a presentation of Maine.

“I figured out that one of my favorite actresses, Anna Kendrick, was originally from there,” she said.

Besides Hawaii, North Carolina and Maine, the other states that were presented were Alabama (Ian Tarrants), Arizona (Gus Ridgley), California (Mya Fox), Colorado (Karma Martin), Connecticut (Jackson Harris), Florida (Charlie Wesley), Idaho (Landon Swafford), Indiana (Jacob Nunley), Kentucky (Rikki Fry), Louisiana (Noah Tochtrop), Maryland (Memphis Wiggs), Massachusetts (Abby Cobb), Mississippi (Blaire Cope), Nebraska (Chloe Veach), Nevada (Brantlee Craven), New Hampshire (Jase Hall), New Jersey (Emerich Hildebrand), New Mexico (Aubrey Oden), Ohio (Colton Brown), Oklahoma (Levi Wolfe), Oregon (Laila McBain), Pennsylvania (William Eversmeyer), Rhode Island (Weston Swagulski), South Carolina (Kenzie Cirininone and Neveah Allison), South Dakota (Isaiah Neidlinger), Tennessee (Calleigh Tucker), Utah (Leilah Clark), Virginia (Dominick Ventimiglia) and Wisconsin (Kaiden Ludy).

Besides Missouri, there were no presentations on Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, New York, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.