PDS faculty take The Marshmallow Challenge

The PDS faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning.

Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and a marshmallow: Build the highest freestanding structure with the marshmallow on top. Time allowed: 18 minutes

Here’s a glimpse of what happened:


Here’s the background to the project:

9 Responses to PDS faculty take The Marshmallow Challenge
  1. [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by JosieHolford and PDS, PDS. PDS said: PDS Faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. Read more about it here. http://fb.me/GL001Q9D [...]

  2. PDS
    August 31, 2010 | 9:29 pm

    PDS Faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. Read more about it here. http://fb.me/GL001Q9D

  3. PDS
    August 31, 2010 | 9:32 pm

    PDS faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. To watch a short video and find out more about the challenge: http://fb.me/GR87dd2l

  4. JosieHolford
    August 31, 2010 | 9:36 pm

    RT @PoughkeepsieDay: PDS faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. To watch a short video and find out more about the challenge: http://fb.me/GR87dd2l

  5. Paul Jaeger
    September 12, 2010 | 1:02 am

    Nice team-building idea from @JosieHolford: http://bit.ly/9hzTQz

  6. JosieHolford
    September 12, 2010 | 1:06 am

    @clear_mason_jar Thanks. And it was just the beginning of a great day of learning. The rest was even better! Ask. http://bit.ly/9hzTQz

  7. JosieHolford
    September 25, 2010 | 4:14 pm

    Happy to see PDS marshmallow challenge http://wp.me/pKCQM-Sn lead to another in Wisconsin. Check out Teaching Science 2.0 http://is.gd/fsEJ3

  8. PDS
    September 25, 2010 | 4:24 pm

    RT @JosieHolford: Happy to see PDS marshmallow challenge http://wp.me/pKCQM-Sn lead to another in Wisconsin. Check out Teaching Science …

  9. [...] I was reminded of  Tom Wujec’s TED Talk: Build a tower, build a team in an August 2010 Compass Point post by Josie [...]

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