Today In maths Mrs Dines gave us an activity called the Marshmallow challenge. The aim of the challenge was to create a long and stable tower using 20 spaghetti sticks, 1 1m length string, 1 marshmallow, 1 1m masking tape and a pair of scissors in only 18 mins. You have to use the materials given and not found objects and when you're done you have to stick the marshmallow in top. Mrs Dines put us in our kidpreneur groups for the challenge. She then gave us 3 mins to discuss and plan.
5,4,3,2,1. The 3 mins were over and Mrs Dines quickly started the countdown.We pushed our chairs out of the way, grabbed the sticks and the tape and stuck them together. We made three long sticks and attached them to form a triangle. When we were done Agnes carefully stuck the marshmallow on top but sadly it fell. We looked around and saw the other teams thinking first. We then realised we were rushing. We took the sticks apart and started again.
When We took the sticks apart Agnes and Dehnyse came up with the idea to make a pyramid shape to support the three sticks making the triangle. As the 18 min went down to nearly 7 min I grabbed the tape carelessly, ripped it and stuck it to the sides to keep it strong. It was going to the last minute. Agnes told me to hold the top so she could use the string to tie the top. Kolio,Agnes,Dehnyse and I stepped away from the tower and it was STANDING!
Agnes and Dehnyse were shouting and shaking hands so were me and Kolio But we were celebrating too soon. Somehow the sound waves created by our celebrating caused the tower to collapse. All the other teams laughed and carried on. The time finished and everyone stepped away from the tower. Mrs dines Then came around measured just two teams towers because the other groups towers fell.
In the end Johns team won.Although only the winners got marshmallow Mrs Dines was kind to give us some too.
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