Cambridge Rindge And Latin School Community Completes 60,000 Piece Puzzle

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — High school students and staff at the Cambridge Rindge And Latin School completed a colossal jigsaw puzzle after months of carefully assembling thousands of puzzle pieces.

"What A Wonderful World," featuring 187 artworks from the Dowdle studio, is the world's largest jigsaw puzzle. It's 8 feet tall and 29 feet long with 60,000 pieces.

The puzzle depicts a world map with intricate illustrations of different places from around the globe.

"The ocean sections of it are really just glimpses of different towns and cultural experiences from across the globe," explained Emily Houston, a library teacher at CRLS.

"I think it's lovely. It really parallels our community at CRLS that has students and staff from all over the world."

Houston organized the puzzle-making project, which took 13 months to complete.

“It took a lot of our time to meticulously put every single piece together," said CRLS student Aniket Srivastava.

"We worked and worked and worked, and I think we accomplished a really big thing."

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Students and staff were encouraged to stop by the library on lunch breaks or before and after school to work on the puzzle, and staff were able to sign up their class of students to take on one or more of the 60 1,000-piece sections of the puzzle.

The finished puzzle is on display at the CRLS Library through Friday for the whole school to see. “I think they've seen that we can come together and do anything that we really set as a goal for ourselves," said Houston.

WBZ NewsRadio's Madison Rogers (@MadisonWBZ) reports.

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