TCSEA staff members completed a team building activity on opening day called the Marshmallow Challenge. All too often, in business and life we need to create something new, working with people we don’t know, with not enough resources and not enough time. Sound familiar? The Marshmallow Challenge is a fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to work in these conditions to learn profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity. It’s simple, fun, and instructive.
The task is simple: in eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard (or meter) of tape, one yard (or meter) of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top.
This team comprised of Kelsey Kercheval, Brittany Kemp, Julie Hesse, Hailey Toney and Wendy Welter build a tower of 24 inches! Congratulations!