Greenland? (Pun unintentional!)
Yeah, these entries are going to be high-quality simply because they’re the cream of the crop. Yeah, kids absorb the weirdest things and regurgitate them. Nonetheless, there are entries on in that list that a kid had very little to do with - kid may have copied it out, but the idea, the development, the composition and the description are an adult’s.
Not entirely sure what a Pinewood Derby is. A (very) cursory Google shows it’s some kind of popular homemade-car race?
Go read that post you quoted again. Read that bit where I clarified exactly what I meant when I said ‘helped’. Read the bit where I’m specifically referring to competitions. Go on, it’s a very short post. Shouldn’t take you long.
I just looked through them again, with a friend, and nah - apart from region 7, those drawings are either kids’ own work or the parents were exceptionally good at drawing like kids (which is not that easy). The (fairly simple) concepts definitely aren’t beyond children; did you read the one about breast cancer? Her grandmother had survived it recently. You’re underestimating kids if you think those concepts are beyond them.
Mine were always sci fi tanks and my behavior issues got me attention from the counselors for other reasons. 
You live in the past.
Graffiti style is mainstream now.
Agreed, my friend’s daughter is six and her artwork is already starting to have perspective. Of course her Mother is an illustrator by trade.
The Pinewood Derby is a competition devised by the Boy Scouts of America where the scouts buy a car kit and build their own custom race car. They then compete these cars on a ramped track.
The idea is that the kids build their own cars using the same kits following the same rules. The kit contains a precut block of wood, 4 plastic wheels, 4 nails to serve as axles, and maybe a few other bits (been forever since I did it). The rules define the size and weight. Lead weight is added to put the car in the correct range. The kids compete in age groups so that each is, in theory, competing at a fair level.
However, different kids have different access to tools, and some fathers take a more involved role in helping their kid make the best car. For example, the plastic wheels are generic pre-formed pieces. If you have access to a lathe, you can turn the wheels to make sure they are smooth and true. Similarly, mouting the wheels with the nails is tricky to ensure they are true. Then there is applying graphite to the wheels/axles to make them spin really smooth. Apparently there are other tricks that can improve performance.
When my son was a Cub Scout, he competed in several Pinewood Derbys. IIRC, it was okay for parents to help, but of course all the cars had to be the same weight. There was an offical ‘weigh-in’ the night before, and then left at the site for the races the following day. So, no last-minute tampering at home.
No inserting anti-matter either!
OK, another example of a painting my daughter did when she was 3, with no help other than washing the brushes for her and sitting next to her doing my own painting at the same time. There’s a good deal of perspective there. She’s a talented artist, but I know kids her age (at the aforementioned drawing school - she’s now ten) whose work you probably would be amazed to find out was by a kid - but I know for certain that it is.
Saying that those drawings (except perhaps region 7) couldn’t have been done by kids that age is like saying that nobody could possibly run a mile in five minutes because you can’t.
The national winner’s up. Makes me wonder if the OP is boycotting google on principle. Anyway, I really like it. (Incidentally, why does FireFox’s spell check thing that google is wrong without the capital g? A google is a word, yes?)
You’re thinking of googol (1 with a hundred zeros after it).
Oops, didn’t know they were spelled differently. Thanks!