Lateral Thinking

Last week we did the marshmallow challenge. We were given 20 minutes to build a tallest tower out of  a spaghetti and a marshmallow have to be placed on top of it. My group started out with the base of the tower. We broke 2 sticks into half and arranged it in a cross formation. We then started to bind the rest of the spaghetti stick together forming the tallest tower. At first, it wasn't stable as yet because the base wasn't that strong as it couldn't adhere to the weight of the spaghetti sticks with a marshmallow on top. After thinking on how to make the base more stable, finally, an idea came out. Thanks to the power of physics, the base could adhere to the weight of the whole tower. I placed the strings at the end of each stick. The strings are tangled up and being rolled into ball and was taped against the stick. The ball of strings acts like a support as we weren't allowed to use blue tack. We won the challenge and received a packet of marshmallow. We shared the marshmallow with our lecturer and the other students too for trying.

Apart from the marshmallow challenge, we were given 2 problems and we need to work as a group and we come out with creative solutions. As instructed by our lecturer, the solutions given by us doesn't have to logical, it can be irrational. We then shared our solutions and started laughing at it. We had a great time sharing our ideas and laughing at it. Solutions are above. 1st problem given is 'there's a hole in your fence, and your neighbor's chicken went into your garden and destroy your crops. 2nd problem given is 'there's a bee that went in to your house and it flew to the painting with roses and a vase on it instead of to the real vase of flowers. why?


We didnt have a hard time communicating because all of us came out with the solution and write it down straight away.


team members:

akshay-rashay19.blogspot.sg
dave-http;//mikhdave.blogspot.com
hui ting-http://kewpiemaycry.blogspot.sg