Free Standing Spaghetti Tower
This one is 42 inches tall and uses the exact same materials given to us in the chall.
Free standing spaghetti tower. The marshmallow tower challenge is a simple team exercise that is enjoyable but also encourages people to work together to practice problem solving design thinking resilience and agility. If you re documenting the challenge have someone record the heights. To download the spaghetti tower instructions as a pdf click here. Although it s simple after 18 minutes you ll have a roomful of vastly different structures.
From the shortest standing structure to the tallest measure and call out the heights. 20 minutes total timing depends on debrief time note the original exercise allows 18 minutes i have reduced this to 12 minutes. One yard of string. 15 30 minutes.
20 sticks of spaghetti. Small teams are asked to build the tallest most cost effective free standing tower using a packet of dried spaghetti and a packet of jelly babies within the set time limit. Visit the marshmallow challenge website for more information. The team with the tallest freestanding tower once it s been moved is the winner.
Build a tower build a team. Not only is the spaghetti and marshmallow tower good as a team building activity but it can also be used as a conversation starter for many different talking points. And you have only 18 minutes to do it. In eighteen minutes teams must build the tallest free standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti one yard of tape one yard of string and one marshmallow.
One yard of tape. Rules of the spaghetti and marshmallow tower lab. In a team of four participants have to try and create the tallest free standing structure they can in under 18 minutes using only the following materials. The measurement will be taken from the base of the tower to the top of the large.
Teams are free to break the spaghetti. The marshmallow needs to be on top the marshmallow challenge was developed by tom wujec who has done the activity with hundreds of groups around the world. The winning team has the highest tower. Master the art of building a really tall spaghetti and marshmallow tower.
6 50 timing. The group that builds the highest free standing tower wins the competition. Also the marshmallow challenge is considered an exercise in psychology. A surprisingly useful life skill considering the current popularity of spaghetti and marshmallow towers at school science days and work team building events.
Build a free standing tower out of uncooked spaghetti sticks that will support a single marshmallow. Here is a step by step guide to completing the marshmallow and spaghetti tower challenge for yourself. Couldn t resist giving the scrum teacher ralph spaghetti tower a try. The spaghetti small marshmallows and tape can be broken or torn to accommodate the tower.
So keep reading i ll be sharing my science prize winning tower design with you.