Today, we did marshmallow-spaghetti challenge. Our task was to build a tower made out of spaghetti and tapes with a marshmallow on top of it. It is an activity that tests many important skills in life, such as creativity, thinking skills, teamwork, collaboration skills both as a group and as an individual.
Our group made the 4th tallest tower of all groups, which is 33 centimeters. Our tower was way below the average of regular people, which is 50 centimeters, and I immediately felt weakness of the group members.
Our main problem was a lack of teamwork and hesitation towards try and error. We did not concide with each other and each member tried their own way of building. Also, we did not spend much time actually building the tower because we had prolonged discussion on the shape of the tower and physics. Time management was also a tough task for us and as a result of unsophisticated scheduling, we were left with useless time, which was too short to fix the tower.
According to the Ted talk that we watched after the activity, this challenge has been done many times everywhere and brought interesting results. I was puzzled by the result that kindergarten children built a tower higher than what smart adults built. One thing that I presumed from this results and the talk is that in case of an activity like this, already learnt knowledge and intelligence is useless. Pure efforts and experience are the only thing needed to easily overcome physics in a short time.
If we could do this activity again, I would try to test strong structures of spaghetti, rather than observing them and contemplating my image of the completed structures.
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