{"id":2082,"date":"2012-10-04T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:06:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-17T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:08:32","slug":"cornerstone-marshmallow-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/2012\/10\/04\/cornerstone-marshmallow-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornerstone Marshmallow Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, a yard of masking tape and a yard of string, 750 freshmen in ACU&#8217;s Cornerstone course were given 18 minutes to build the tallest freestanding structure capable of holding a marshmallow on top.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50850884\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Marshmallow Challenge\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We worked with Mike Wiggins, chair of the Art &amp; Design department, to design support materials and manage logistics for a design challenge to support his spotlight talk. The experience helped students understand the value of collaboration and creative problem solving in a range of disciplines.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Wiggins&#8217; Spotlight talk<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/the-marshmallow-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Marshmallow Challenge instructions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the origins of the Marshmallow Challenge, watch Tom Wujec&#8217;s TED Talk:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/buildatower\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/buildatower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the following students and faculty for sharing their reflections on the project:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Alex Jowett<br \/>\nShacourtney King<br \/>\nDr. Jeanene Reese<br \/>\nLatonia Smith<br \/>\nSusan Teel<br \/>\nJacob Thomsen<br \/>\nBrandon Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, a yard of masking tape and a yard of string, 750 freshmen in ACU&#8217;s Cornerstone course were given 18 minutes to build the tallest freestanding structure capable of holding a marshmallow on top. . We worked with Mike Wiggins, chair of the Art &amp; Design department, to design support materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Xrz-xA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/learningstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}