Team Building: Marshmallow Spaghetti Challenge

Getting your business’s or organization’s team together for a fun challenge can be invaluable. By participating in an event or activity together, your staff can learn a great deal from each other. A marshmallow spaghetti challenge could be precisely what your team needs to come together and accomplish your goals.

Using the Marshmallow Spaghetti Challenge for team building

What Is the Challenge?

The objective is pretty straightforward: Sub-teams within your team are challenged to construct the tallest structure possible from using only 1 marshmallow, 20 spaghetti sticks, 1-yard of string, and 1-yard of tape.

How the Challenge Is Beneficial

By working together to achieve this simple goal, your team members may discover fundamental principles of design and engineering. More importantly, they will explore ways to work together efficiently to reach a specified goal. They may find strategies that enhance group participation. The ability to support one another will undoubtedly be reinforced.

Additionally, this kind of team-building challenge is fun, and sometimes, a spirit of enjoyment is lacking within an organization. If that is the case for your group, try coming together as a team for a marshmallow spaghetti challenge. You could renew the enthusiasm that makes your team great.

How it Works

This activity is not complicated, but it can be challenging to complete. First, you will need to assemble the necessary items for each mini-team. Each group will require 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, one standard-size marshmallow, a yard of masking tape, and a yard of string. You will also need a measuring tape and a stopwatch.

The teams are given 18 minutes to work with the materials and build the tallest freestanding structure. They may break the spaghetti as needed, and they may also cut the string and tape. The marshmallow, however, cannot be cut, eaten, or altered in any way and must be positioned at the top of the structure.

The teams may use as little or as much of the materials as they wish. Because the structure must be freestanding, it cannot be supported by or suspended from another object.

Once 18 minutes have passed, you can measure each team’s structure—the tallest one wins, as long as it meets the mentioned criteria.

San Francisco Bay Area Corporate Events & Team Building 

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