After a thorough discussion of the brainstorm content, everyone was ready to put these ideas to use in the Spaghetti-Marshmallow Challenge!
Each group of three was given the following:
20 sticks of spaghetti
50 cm of string
50 cm of tape
1 medium-sized marshmellow
2o minutes to build their structure
The goal was to use these materials to build a free-standing structure that would suppport a marshmallow on top.  The team with the tallest structure would win the challenge. The rules were that everything could be broken or cut into smaller pieces - except for the marshmallow, which had to remain intact and be placed on top.

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