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Build a tower!

Exercise: Building a tower

In the following exercise you will build a tower. The challenge is to build the tallest free-standing tower with limited resources. You can also play this as a team. Its fun, and a deeper learning will be revealed at he end.

Prepare some ingredients:

* 1 Marshmallow (eat the rest of the bag), 
* 20 spaghetti, 
* 1 meter of string (wool is good), 
* 1 meter of sticky tape (single side sticky, 
 min 10mm wide,
 masking tape (easy to tear). 
 Regular Scotch tape is good, too.

Prepare some tools: 1 pair of scissors, 1 measuring tape
Your challenge: use these ingredients to build the tallest free-standing tower. You can play this as a team
The rules:
- Do not suspend the tower from a taller structure („freestanding“).
- Entire (!) Marshmallow must be on top of the structure.
- Use all or parts of the ingredients, either as a whole or cut-up.
- You have 18 minutes to build!
Play! Its most fun in a competition.
After 18 minutes, measure the size of your structure (if it is still standing!).
Upload a picture of your tower at www.padlet.com