TABLEtalk ... Team work

The ability to work well as part of a team is an important skill for students to learn and our evening looking at this topic was both educational and fun!!

We started our evening by considering what the various aspects of a healthy, well-functioning team might be and each group came up with some fantastic answers.  Here's what I had prepared earlier in the day ...

Then it was time to put all those ideas and theories into practice. Each group was given a packet of marshmallows and some spaghetti and their task was to build the tallest, free-standing tower within a 15 minute time restriction. Of course, any team with a civil engineer in their group were lucky. 
See pics below of what each group produced ...

And the winners at 66cms were ...