as a TEDtalks addict, i have seen over 95% of all talks uploaded to youtube - and this is the only talk so far i had a smile across my face for the whole talk. im sad i know too much now about this test to actually do it and see how good i get, but as an engineering undergraduate student i think ill do pretty good. Loved it, 5 stars if i could, "like" is underastimating this talk
I participated to this challenge and I can state that it is indeed a very good teambuilding activity. It shows how every person in the team thinks individually and also how effective they can operate as a team. However, the most shocking fact is that kindergarten children get better results than the adults. It really makes me think how sometimes the urge to show a leadership skills in the team among the adults can disturb the work that much and create a chaos. Also very interesting factor, that a prize, which at the first sight should be motivating, turns out to be more of a stress factor and disturbs the work even more.
My guess as an educator is that kindergarten students tend to focus on and in the moment. Their ability for abstract thought is just emerging so they are less worried about, “what if I fail” and more on the immediate task. Taken to the other extreme. Think about older kids and adults that are so afraid of failure that they won’t even make an attempt. Also their may be a fun factor. Adults may see the task as silly or unimportant, embarrassing or beneath them.
I lived this experience myself last Thursday and it's totally true, my team failed because no discussion was there and ideas like mine or others could actually been discussed and enhanced . The other team actually did that and made a tower of 48 centimeters. By the way we are systems engineers
Engineer Lmao i am in a class of people that most of them want to be engineer Result were predictable The half of the class that was from educational class from their beginning had the poorest results (still around 25 cm) they want to pretend engineer graduation Me and other mate's that came from industrial classes and poor theorical knowneldge made the bests tower around 40cm The best idea was still to tape the mashmallow to the roof
I also experienced the Marshmallow Challenge during a university workshop. Other departments did well in the challenge EXCEPT our department: College of Business department. This video was played after the workshop for processing and I really learned so much from it. Thanks!
Some people lead the team astray and then blame someone else. I experienced this a few months after watching this talk over a decade ago. I told the team about this TED talk and that we should iterate. We made the first standing structure in the room, but it was short. On our second attempt, I suggested making it a little taller. Another guy took over and tried to make a huge tower that never stayed up. Afterward, the other guy on my team gave me a derisive look and said, "TED talk, eh?"
Just started doing this with my K-5 computer science classes. We have had a consistent "fail" rate of about 50% of the groups per class do not have a standing tower. For me, it'll be useful to do at the end of the year again too, and see if all the teamwork, collaboration, communication, and prototyping activities during the year, build more skills, and produce better tower results.
Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand, prototypes are an essential part of the design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏
Im a psychologist and planning to use this in one of my psychiatric groups. I think it holds a valuable lesson about mental health as well: Testing and failing is part of the path to a happy, resilient self. Try new things, if they don’t work - try something else!
My partner and I did this during science lessons, and it was very easy. We made a pyramid and it was 40 cm tall with only 18 sticks of spaghetti. We were the only ones to use a square base instead of a triangular base.
I asked the class to do this individually first. Many failed and we had some towers from 10-17" in height. Then I broke them into smaller groups of three and asked them to collaborate about the challenge. The groups built higher towers using the combined wisdom. They also team-built the second generation. It was interesting to note that the collaboration did not cure the fail rate which was about the same as when individuals did it. Collaboration did not achieve a reasonable limit. Teams attempted to build too high and collapses were frequent. Building towers out of spaghetti, tape and string is obviously difficult.
We just did this as well. My team won, but only because I told everyone to stop once we got a high enough tower. I looked around the room and realized that everyone else was starting to get overly confident and kept adding more stuff. I was banking on theirs all collapsing, which they did.
I love how he mentioned falure is so important. That's why I hate when people within the government try to keep failures afloat at the expense of us all.
Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand prototypes are an essential part of design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏
*Have you taken the Marshmallow challenge?* Lot of learning, specially about the importance of prototyping and identifying the marshmallow of your project. The bragging part: We had taken this challenge during our ***** program on Innovation (Driving Growth through Innovation), and made the structure successfully stand. Though we didn't make the tallest structure, we got a gift for doing the right things during the process.
I would add another dimension to the talk on 5:24 min that's attitude. Success can be achieved with combination of Incentives + High skills + Good Attitude
I don't see how "collaboration" has anything to do with the one plan vs. iterative approaches. I think the study would have been a lot more straightforward if the task was done by individuals, and then maybe later that could also be compared with the performance of groups. definitely seems like a useful study though.
Alexander Lee obviously has no idea and a low iq. See Robert Kientop's comments below. Planning and iterative approaches has everything to do with working as a team and collaboration.
I do this with my 7th grade students each year; it is a great challenge, and they end up having to get so creative to solve the problem! A great exercise in teamwork, prototyping, and perseverance. TED, can you take these great videos and make short-cuts of them? 7th graders cannot watch all of this video and stay engaged through the boring bits, unfortunately :/
I think it would be difficult to get the video shorter than 7min. That said, I can't see how 7th graders would really find any of the video interesting!
My whole class did this as a challenge and everyone’s right to only use for sticks to hold it up in the rest just build up the marshmallow and it all fell and me and my team we did we made like an Eiffel tower design and we were the only team who had their structure standing
I don't see how this would help for people in groups. I had to accidentally be in 2 groups per class because I didn't know where to go for one of my free periods (it was changed later on). The first group I letted all 3 people in my group to make this tower. We failed. The second group I worked in. I persuaded them not to help and did mine the same as the last one. I succeeded in my 11th grade chemistry class and had about 27 inches. I know that it gives people a chance to share work. But, few collaborations start collapsing skyscrapers.
We had to take the Marshmallow Challenge last week as a part of our Change Mgmt. elective in Mechanical Engg. We were a team of six people and withing first five minutes we arrived at an unanimous decision of building our tower along the lines of Burj Al Arab. It just took us next six minutes to construct it &it turned out to be not only the strongest but also the second tallest structure out of the four groups.
Never under estimate Kindergartners building skills with old pasta! Lol I wish he would've included a Chef and see if their knowledge of food would help them built it more secure.
i'm surprised that the kindergartners didn't eat up the marshmallows while building the tower
I thought about the same thing! lol!
as a TEDtalks addict, i have seen over 95% of all talks uploaded to youtube - and this is the only talk so far i had a smile across my face for the whole talk.
im sad i know too much now about this test to actually do it and see how good i get, but as an engineering undergraduate student i think ill do pretty good.
Loved it, 5 stars if i could, "like" is underastimating this talk
I participated to this challenge and I can state that it is indeed a very good teambuilding activity. It shows how every person in the team thinks individually and also how effective they can operate as a team. However, the most shocking fact is that kindergarten children get better results than the adults. It really makes me think how sometimes the urge to show a leadership skills in the team among the adults can disturb the work that much and create a chaos. Also very interesting factor, that a prize, which at the first sight should be motivating, turns out to be more of a stress factor and disturbs the work even more.
My guess as an educator is that kindergarten students tend to focus on and in the moment. Their ability for abstract thought is just emerging so they are less worried about, “what if I fail” and more on the immediate task. Taken to the other extreme. Think about older kids and adults that are so afraid of failure that they won’t even make an attempt.
Also their may be a fun factor. Adults may see the task as silly or unimportant, embarrassing or beneath them.
I lived this experience myself last Thursday and it's totally true, my team failed because no discussion was there and ideas like mine or others could actually been discussed and enhanced . The other team actually did that and made a tower of 48 centimeters. By the way we are systems engineers
Engineer
Lmao i am in a class of people that most of them want to be engineer
Result were predictable
The half of the class that was from educational class from their beginning had the poorest results (still around 25 cm) they want to pretend engineer graduation
Me and other mate's that came from industrial classes and poor theorical knowneldge made the bests tower around 40cm
The best idea was still to tape the mashmallow to the roof
I'm doing this tomorrow for my year 9 STEM class and I would love to know what some of the winning designs were
I also experienced the Marshmallow Challenge during a university workshop. Other departments did well in the challenge EXCEPT our department: College of Business department. This video was played after the workshop for processing and I really learned so much from it. Thanks!
Some people lead the team astray and then blame someone else.
I experienced this a few months after watching this talk over a decade ago. I told the team about this TED talk and that we should iterate. We made the first standing structure in the room, but it was short. On our second attempt, I suggested making it a little taller. Another guy took over and tried to make a huge tower that never stayed up. Afterward, the other guy on my team gave me a derisive look and said, "TED talk, eh?"
Just started doing this with my K-5 computer science classes. We have had a consistent "fail" rate of about 50% of the groups per class do not have a standing tower. For me, it'll be useful to do at the end of the year again too, and see if all the teamwork, collaboration, communication, and prototyping activities during the year, build more skills, and produce better tower results.
Did you end up doing the challenge at the end of the year? If so, what were the results?
Design is a contact sport. Prototypes are an essential part of design.
Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand, prototypes are an essential part of the design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏
"Among the best are recent graduates of... kindergarten!" Love this video & the way this simple exercise is used.
Im a psychologist and planning to use this in one of my psychiatric groups.
I think it holds a valuable lesson about mental health as well: Testing and failing is part of the path to a happy, resilient self. Try new things, if they don’t work - try something else!
Even in current reality this ted talk makes sense. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
My partner and I did this during science lessons, and it was very easy. We made a pyramid and it was 40 cm tall with only 18 sticks of spaghetti. We were the only ones to use a square base instead of a triangular base.
I found this very helpful in a CAPSTONE project I am working on. Thank you and I will be sharing this with my team!
I asked the class to do this individually first. Many failed and we had some towers from 10-17" in height. Then I broke them into smaller groups of three and asked them to collaborate about the challenge. The groups built higher towers using the combined wisdom. They also team-built the second generation. It was interesting to note that the collaboration did not cure the fail rate which was about the same as when individuals did it. Collaboration did not achieve a reasonable limit. Teams attempted to build too high and collapses were frequent. Building towers out of spaghetti, tape and string is obviously difficult.
Did you give them the same time frame for both individual and team collaborative work? 10 minutes?
I could send this video to every overwatch player I know
Games are opposite of the delayed gratification and fpss destroy brain's hipoccampus and neo cortex. lol
@@quand_meme have you ever played a game?
And they still wouldn’t play objective.
it is amazing to see that creativity has no age.........
4:49 shows what happens when people strive too much for results - many will recognise this in their businesses.
Gavin Ingham unless your experience with building things
We just did this as well. My team won, but only because I told everyone to stop once we got a high enough tower. I looked around the room and realized that everyone else was starting to get overly confident and kept adding more stuff. I was banking on theirs all collapsing, which they did.
I did this activity with my college class. They loved it. Many were relieved to watch the video and see that they weren't alone in failing.
Simple team building ideas can work but the facilitation has to be really good and meaningful. Tom's a good speaker, enjoyed this.
Was trying to find video that explains the best about the challenge and this one was the best, just sent them this video
Morale of the story: hire kindergartners.
“It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” - Pablo Picasso
actually it is hire engineers and architects
I love how he mentioned falure is so important. That's why I hate when people within the government try to keep failures afloat at the expense of us all.
Thanks a lot Sir for sharing important lesson, "design truly is a contact sport it demands that we bring all of our senses to the task and that we apply the very best our thinking our feeling and our doing to the challenge we have at hand prototypes are an essential part of design. Excellent speech 👌👏👏👏👏
I love this exercise. We did it in one of my MBA classes and I use it in workshops that i do now.
Well i'm certainly glad to see architects&engineers at the top :)
no matter how sturdy the tower or how much imagination goes into a tower it will never be able to deflect the emerald splash
Your presentation was very well structured! It had it all: good information, humor, anecdotes! Wow!
Excelente. A prática no curso de liderança foi bastante enriquecedora.
Thanks, wonderful inputs.
team work makes the dream work !
Love this! I'll be trying this with my kindergarten class next year :D
How it went?? 😂
Yeh
one of the best talks so far!
*Have you taken the Marshmallow challenge?*
Lot of learning, specially about the importance of prototyping and identifying the marshmallow of your project.
The bragging part: We had taken this challenge during our ***** program on Innovation (Driving Growth through Innovation), and made the structure successfully stand. Though we didn't make the tallest structure, we got a gift for doing the right things during the process.
what is a good description of the video as a whole
A Marshmallow challenge explanation start by 5:25
We did this in business class and my group did it in 16 min standing tall on its own. Took picture to prove it.
Planning and organzing are enough for team?
His script has been published in high school textbooks across Japan.
Im doing it in my class, really fun!
Very good message.
What are the important elements for building an effective team?
I would add another dimension to the talk on 5:24 min that's attitude. Success can be achieved with combination of Incentives + High skills + Good Attitude
1:05～4:34
6:15～6:43
1:47 1:59 2:02 2:14 2:17 2:25 2:35 3:06 3:16 3:57 3:59 4:33
Thanks for sharing this amazing information!
Would love to see mechanical/civil engineers vs electrical engineers.
This is very educational.
I don't see how "collaboration" has anything to do with the one plan vs. iterative approaches. I think the study would have been a lot more straightforward if the task was done by individuals, and then maybe later that could also be compared with the performance of groups.
definitely seems like a useful study though.
we watched the video after the exercise and could totally relate. give the task to a team and watch them.
Alexander Lee obviously has no idea and a low iq. See Robert Kientop's comments below. Planning and iterative approaches has everything to do with working as a team and collaboration.
Love that 480p
Has Tom or somebody been able to adapt some form of this or another suitable challenge for online classes
THIS IS FACINATING!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!
I didn't realize that this actually was ten years old!
The content seems so similar to a book - How to create successful teams
We did this today at Massey university and it was about 75cm high, very fun!
The audio is gone.
I do this with my 7th grade students each year; it is a great challenge, and they end up having to get so creative to solve the problem! A great exercise in teamwork, prototyping, and perseverance.
TED, can you take these great videos and make short-cuts of them? 7th graders cannot watch all of this video and stay engaged through the boring bits, unfortunately :/
I think it would be difficult to get the video shorter than 7min. That said, I can't see how 7th graders would really find any of the video interesting!
It's a wery good exercise, we use it allot in our team building programs.
I did this with my students. It was alright, but someone misunderstood the instructions and lit their marshmallow on fire ☹
his face lights up when he talks about the 39 inch structure, if you catch my drift.
we did that once with sheets of paper, some tape and a pair of scissors... was fun.
I'm studing architecture, and my design teacher make us do this, my record is 63 cm.
My record is 97
My whole class did this as a challenge and everyone’s right to only use for sticks to hold it up in the rest just build up the marshmallow and it all fell and me and my team we did we made like an Eiffel tower design and we were the only team who had their structure standing
build a tower, build a team, build a wall
very good videos thank you very much for this job !!!!!!!
thank you
bro
your welcom
so the real lesson here is... pay your workers great salaries and huge bonuses and productivity will be really high
I don't see how this would help for people in groups. I had to accidentally be in 2 groups per class because I didn't know where to go for one of my free periods (it was changed later on). The first group I letted all 3 people in my group to make this tower. We failed. The second group I worked in. I persuaded them not to help and did mine the same as the last one. I succeeded in my 11th grade chemistry class and had about 27 inches. I know that it gives people a chance to share work. But, few collaborations start collapsing skyscrapers.
We had to take the Marshmallow Challenge last week as a part of our Change Mgmt. elective in Mechanical Engg. We were a team of six people and withing first five minutes we arrived at an unanimous decision of building our tower along the lines of Burj Al Arab. It just took us next six minutes to construct it &it turned out to be not only the strongest but also the second tallest structure out of the four groups.
Kindergarteners 2:54 - They never fail to surprise you!
I have a daughter currently in kindergarten. We could all learn a thing or two from them...
Very gooooood🖤
I can't hear the video clips ㅠㅠㅠ
thanks
Providing incentives to a team may not always produce success, depending on their skills/competency..
even in COVID-19 i cant go a single year in this education system without building a tower from spaghetti
oh wow...i did this!! really fun!!
@mayhem8808
Yeah you're right, he lets the lisp slip a few times and he has perfectly fitted clothing.
We did this experiment in our communication class
I am learning how to do a marshmallow challenge.
try it 2 weeks ago at JCLC...our tower was only 7 cm...
Awesome
Very interesting
Morph can Monica physical abilities, not powers like healing factors or beams/telepathy.
Never under estimate Kindergartners building skills with old pasta! Lol I wish he would've included a Chef and see if their knowledge of food would help them built it more secure.
2:37 2:37 2:37
2:37 2:37 2:37
No. Just no. Let me get back to work so I can go home.
Did this back when I went to high school.
my group got 34.5 inches in class today OWNAGE!
Does anybody know a similar team build challenge to this?
did he do it in 18 minutes?
What is the key point, thesis of this ????????
i did this in class today, and damn it was hard
We use straws instead of spaghettis
i had to do this in class and my group's tower was 2 inches!!! :D
0:41
한쿡사람찾습니다
한국인이요
^^
.
저요..
저요
21.5 inches on my first try. Coulda went higher but we didn't use all of the spaghetti sticks
yeaaaahhhh go engineers!
would be more interesting if his website was any good :(
Prototyping - Coursera 2020 Here :)
2:13 2:13
2:13 2:13
Most engineering disasters trace back to a business degree