Make a bed. Write a thank you letter. Host a cooking show, and a newscast and a late-night TV spot. Explain to an officer where exactly your seatbelt is.
Could you do all of that, in quick succession, with an entire school of students watching? And cameras pointed squarely at you? While being timed?
That was just one of the tests students at Fairhope West Elementary School faced during the school's first Amazing Shake competition.
The internationally known competition tests students' social and professional skills. The end goal is to prepare them to serve as community leaders.
With a week's worth of contest rounds with names such as "The Gauntlet" and "The Circle of Doom," the tests brought on a palatable mixture of excitement and anticipation for both those who passed each sequence and the students cheering them on.

Last month during the Gauntlet Round, the students made their way through a series of timed challenges that mimicked professional interactions: give a speech, interview another person, write a letter, sit for an interview. Other stations that day tested their poise and confidence while they kept their cool: shoot a basketball in front of a crowd, make a bed and deal with an officer after unknowingly breaking a law.
At the end of the weeklong challenge sixth-grader Maddie Miller was named the overall winner. She said the hardest part was not knowing exactly what the next challenge would be.
"The whole point was to express your personality and show other people your leadership skills and manners," she said.
Her biggest takeaway, she said, was honing her communication skills.
"I learned how to small talk better and learned it's very important to get to know people and introduce yourself," Miller said.
Second- and third-place wins went to Bella Bruijn and Mary McCarthy respectively.
The Amazing Shake was created by Ron Clark of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. There, facilitators at the internationally recognized school train educators from across the globe to change the way classrooms teach children to not just learn but to be transformed into community leaders. Fairhope West has sent several teams of teachers to the academy for training.
Fairhope West Principal Julie Pierce said the program goes hand in hand with the Leader In Me series the school uses as a cornerstone of its teaching. The series emphasizes the seven habits that include being proactive, synergizing and beginning a task with the end in mind.
"Through the Amazing Shake they've learned that if they want to succeed in life they have got to know how to begin with the end in mind. They need to figure out what is it I want out of my life because it's not going to land in their lap," Pierce said. "When they graduate that isn't the end of the journey. They are just beginning. This helps them with future planning."