What could be better than a s'more to kick off the summer?

How about more than 700 of the tasty treats?LB Morris Elementary School in Jim Thorpe went for a summery-sweet record-breaking attempt on Friday afternoon, and it was s'more than enough to beat the high score for the greatest number of chocolately, marshmallowy desserts made at one time."The kids are very, very, very excited," event organizer and special education teacher Jamie Kunkel said. "Most of us don't know anyone who is in the Guinness Book of World Records. They really are excited about today."The idea to take on the current record of 423 simultaneous s'mores came from Bob Schaninger, a former board of education member who read about a similar attempt in Parade magazine."I thought, these guys could do it here, and it would look good for the school district. I talked to Jamie and Mrs. Mordaunt, and they were into it," he said. "It's a great activity for the kids. They can say that they're part of a world record, they can never take that away from them. That's pretty cool."Almost 800 kids were broken up into sections of 50 with groups of five students seated around Sterno cans in the LB Morris parking lot. With matching torch T-shirts and melted chocolate on graham crackers, it looked like a scene out of summer camp. After volunteers handed out marshmallows on a stick, principal Holly Mordaunt sounded off, and the kids roasted the 'mallows to perfection."All of the students have to have the stick over the open flame for ten seconds," Kunkel said. "Then, they take it off and make their sandwich and take a bite. The marshmallow has to be charred, and they have to hang it over the flame for 10 seconds, or they're disqualified."Community volunteers from all over helped out with record keeping, recording, and other necessary evidence that must be submitted to the Guinness World Records Limited committee for confirmation. The volunteers received their own s'mores packs, complete with graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate bars, as a thank you gift."We work closely with LB Morris and Penn Kidder, doing different programming through the Penn State Extension. When Kunkel said that there was something I could give back to the school and help them do, accomplish a feat of having the most people doing s'mores, I jumped at the opportunity," volunteer Mindy Graver, who works with Penn State Extension, said.The frantic but fun activity served as the fourth marking period School Wide Positive Behavior Support reward for the kids, serving to encourage achievement of important social and learning goals while preventing problematic behaviors.As students got in position and prepared to roast, anticipation in the crowd reached a fever pitch."I'm very excited to do the s'mores, because I haven't had s'mores in a long time," said fourth grader Jerome Murphy, 10, who enjoys making the treats in his own fire pit at home.After the marshmallows reached a perfect toasty point, the crowd of eager kids sandwiched the sugary treats and bit in."It was really awesome, and this s'more tastes really good," fourth grader Julianna Birth, 9, said as she took a taste.Though the school will have to wait until all evidence is submitted to Guinness World Records Limited for confirmation, but Kunkel is confident that the kids got the record."I think we made our attempt, but until we collect all of our evidence and send it in, we'll see," Kunkel said. "But, we had a great time, and lots of fun."Check out the Times News Lehighton Facebook page for video from the record-breaking attempt.