Given: One cup of shaving or whipped cream, three mailing labels, two pieces of paper, two safety pins, 30 toothpick, two straws, Not to be used in structure container, M&M’s, dice, 12″ ruler. This is a two-part problem.
In part one you have six minutes to design and construct a structure with the materials provided. The structure must be more than 4 inches high.
At the end of part one, the judge will give you 10 points if the tallest part of the structure is above 4 inches. For every inch above 4 inches you will receive 5 points. In part two you will place a plastic container on your structure. In sequence you will roll a die. Whatever number comes up is the number of M&M’s that you put on the container. These must be put in all at once. If a 3 were rolled, 3 candies would be put in the container all at the same time – not one at a time. This process will go on until the structure collapses.
Each M&M is worth 3 points. Only those that were supported by the structure count ( If a 6 was rolled, 6 candies were put in the container, and the structure collapsed, those last 6 M&M’s do not count.) If you fill your container with one or more M&M’s, you receive a 10 point bonus. You will also be scored on how well our team works together (1-10 pts.)