Eleven Year-Old Wins $10,000 in National Building Contest; Finalists Compete in LUNCHABLES BUILD YOUR OWN FUN Build Off.Business Editors/Food Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 Who says you can't win big for having fun with your food? Eleven year-old Joey Lauer, Jr. of Avondale, Arizona Avondale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 66,706.[1] Avondale is the home of Phoenix International Raceway, a famous auto racing facility, the location of the Bashas' Supermarkets built his way to a small fortune as the grand prize winner of the national Oscar Mayer Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, now owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products. German immigrant Oscar Ferdinand Mayer LUNCHABLES(R) BUILD YOUR OWN FUN(TM) contest. Lauer competed in a national build-off at Legoland in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA on March 5 and won the grand prize of $10,000 towards college and a one-year supply of the newest sweet snack innovation from Oscar Mayer, LUNCHABLES(R) fun snacks. The build-off also featured the newest additions to the fun snacks lineup CHIPS AHOY a·hoy interj. Used to hail a ship or a person or to attract attention. ahoy interj Naut a shout made to call a ship or to attract attention ahoy excl (R) Soft Cookie 'n Frosting frosting the slight graying of the haircoat around the face, particularly muzzle, in dogs with aging and as a regular feature of some breeds such as the Belgian shepherd dog. , OREO(R) Cookies 'n Frosting and Star Cookies 'n Frosting, with stars and stripes Stars and Stripes nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567] See : America sprinkles. And the Winner is.... Lauer's winning masterpiece was a sculpture of a Hover Craft of the future built entirely out of LUNCHABLES fun snacks. It consisted of Brownies, rice crispy squares and sprinkles. LUNCHABLES Fudge Brownies fun snack was Lauer's favorite for building -- and eating. "I'm so excited that I won and got to come to San Diego and Legoland. I had so much fun building my Hover Craft out of LUNCHABLES fun snacks. Hardest part was not eating while I was building." said Lauer. Lauer and the other lucky four finalists were chosen for their unique sculpture entries and were flown to San Diego with their families to participate in the final build-off at Legoland. Ready! Set! Snack! The LUNCHABLES BUILD YOUR OWN FUN contest kicked off with a tour that featured Sarah Baumann, a professional snack artist, and her life size sculptures made completely of LUNCHABLES fun snacks to give kids idea starters. Her sculptures included a race car, robot, and baseball player to name a few. Using their imaginations, kids entered the contest by building anything they wanted, from a rollercoaster to a robot to a rocket, using only LUNCHABLES fun snacks. Next kids had to send in a photo of their creation along with a name. Finalists were chosen based on originality and creativity, appearance of snacking structure and appropriateness of selected name. All five finalists received a family vacation for four to San Diego, CA to compete in the final build-off and a chance to win $10,000 for a college fund and a one-year supply of LUNCHABLES fun snacks. "The key to LUNCHABLES is that kids can assemble their own food and have fun," said Tim Cofer, Sr. Category Business Director for LUNCHABLES. "The contest took this idea even further allowing kids to get creative for a chance to win money towards college. It was amazing to see the various sculptures kids from around the country created using only LUNCHABLES fun snacks." Introduced last year, LUNCHABLES fun snacks are sweet snack combinations in kid-favorite flavors, such as CHIPS AHOY(R), OREO(R) Cookies, Fudge Brownie, S'mores, Marshmallow marshmallow /marsh·mal·low/ (mahrsh´mel?o) (-mal?o) a perennial Eurasian herb, Althaea officinalis, Crispy Square and sugar Star Cookie. Each fun snack includes a cookie, graham cracker, rice crispy square or brownie and a combination of fun toppings such as frosting, marshmallow creme Marshmallow creme is a uniquely American food item. It is a very sweet, spreadable, marshmallow-like confection and is popular amongst young children. Marshmallow Fluff and peanut butter are the fillings of a sandwich, the Fluffernutter. and chocolate chips, chocolate candies or sprinkles - letting kids pile on top any way they want. LUNCHABLES(R) is a brand of Oscar Mayer Foods, a division of Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for North America, the nation's largest packaged foods company. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. 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