Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University: Rumble Blocks
A game where students must create a stable structure for a friendly alien to use to reach its spacecraft. Students manipulate the blocks to learn that wider bases, symmetrical structures, and creating a lower center of mass result in a...
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Odyssey of the Mind: Cantilever Structure
Using 50 toothpicks and clay, teams will build a structure "that will sit on a table behind a boundary line" and will "cantilever, as far as possible beyond the boundary line without touching the table."
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Odyssey of the Mind: Tug O War
Students work in groups as they use everyday objects (tissue, toothpicks, mailing label, straw, rubberband, Styrofoam cup, paper) to create "links that will be joined together to form a chain in a tug-of-war."
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Odyssey of the Mind: Tower of Pasta
Students work in groups to create a structure out of various types of pasta that will be tested on both height and strength.
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Odyssey of the Mind: Air Express
Students use test their creativity and logic in the science-class activity through which they create a device that is powered by a deflating balloon.