More Engineering

Here we had the students build towers using spaghetti and marshmallows...it was really difficult; this team used gum drops to hold the pieces together which was far more successful; the marshmallows work well when working with toothpicks, but with spaghetti (the longer lengths) they did not hold together so well.

 I got this group to use straws in this challenge to see if it worked any better ...
sort of!

And onto the newspaper challenge....build a chair using newspaper and tape; the chair must be able to hold the weight of a student!

Many different designs were discussed...

This group got the idea of the triangle to strengthen their chair...

 Like the design of this one...think it will hold up?

 As I mentioned before...the room was a disaster after each day...one needs to build in a great clean up plan before beginning to unleash the engineers in the classroom!