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Eighth graders were given the Marshmallow Challenge today. Imagine being presented with 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, 1 yard of masking tape, 1 yard of string, and 1 marshmallow, and being told you get 18 minutes to create the tallest, freestanding structure possible - with the marshmallow on top. That is the problem these students successfully solved. The tallest structure today was 46.5 centimeters. Students understood that the strongest geometric shap