0 "That was hard!!"

I can't tell you how many times we heard that phrase over the course of our Marshmallow Challenge.  Our response?  "Yes, but it was SO good for your brain!"

As we mentioned in an earlier post, one of our main goals in SEAM is to develop 21st century skills at all grade levels, K-5.  The Marshmallow Challenge is a great kick-off lesson that gets participants to dive right in.  From their website: "The Marshmallow Challenge is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation, and creativity.  The task is simple: in eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow.  The marshmallow needs to be on top."

image courtesy of www.marshmallowchallenge.com

For pictures of our challenge, click on the Marshmallow Challenge link in the "pages" section of the blog to the right.  

We want your comments!  What do you do to foster collaboration, innovation, and creativity at home?