Given: Ten pieces spaghetti, 2 straws, one mailing label, 1 – 8 1/ 2 x 1 1 sheet of paper, 2 – 3″ x 5″ cards, 4 toothpicks, 1 – 12″ piece of string, 2 cotton balls,20 saltine crackers and 20 rigatoni pasta.
Make a long span structure on a table with the materials given that will support the crackers and pasta for extra points.
You have 5 minutes to build a structure having only two vertical supports. The structure will be measured at the end of the 5 minutes. The structure length will be measured between the furthest unsupported span of the structure as measured parallel to the table top. For each one inch of structure length between the two supports, the team will earn 3 points. For each cracker and each rigatoni supported off the table the team earns one point. Any crackers or rigatoni supported more that 2 inches off the table will each earn 2 points.
A penalty of 5 points per word will be given if you talk during the problem.