The Marshmallow Challenge is an indoor, patrol-based, teamwork and
creativity challenge that can be run with minimal equipment and twenty
minutes of time.
Developed by
Tom Wujec of AutoDesk (Producers of the
FormIt app and
AutoCAD amongst many,many others), this challenge has been used by large
and small companies, schools and kindergartens, as well as scout groups
around the world.

The rules are simple: each team has 18 minutes to build the tallest
possible freestanding tower (i.e. Not supported by anything other than
the floor) with the marshmallow at the top. My
Rover Crew recently ran
this challenge with every Scout patrol in our district. Here are the results as an idea
of the heights that are possible:

Here is a video of Tom discussing the challenge and what it teaches about teamwork:
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