i'm surprised that the kindergartners didn't eat up the marshmallows while building the tower

@peggystreetinfluencer

3 жыл бұрын

I thought about the same thing! lol!

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!

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.

@sawkevinnoel7954

10 ай бұрын

Did you end up doing the challenge at the end of the year? If so, what were the results?

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

@LacourWave

4 жыл бұрын

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

@demonicguardgaming8067

Жыл бұрын

I'm doing this tomorrow for my year 9 STEM class and I would love to know what some of the winning designs were

"Among the best are recent graduates of... kindergarten!" Love this video & the way this simple exercise is used.

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.

Design is a contact sport. Prototypes are an essential part of design.

@ali25120

2 жыл бұрын

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 👌👏👏👏👏

I love this exercise. We did it in one of my MBA classes and I use it in workshops that i do now.

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.

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 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.

@goobytron2888

10 ай бұрын

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.

Your presentation was very well structured! It had it all: good information, humor, anecdotes! Wow!

it is amazing to see that creativity has no age.........

Simple team building ideas can work but the facilitation has to be really good and meaningful. Tom's a good speaker, enjoyed this.

I found this very helpful in a CAPSTONE project I am working on. Thank you and I will be sharing this with my team!

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

Excelente. A prática no curso de liderança foi bastante enriquecedora.

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.

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 👌👏👏👏👏

Thanks, wonderful inputs.

Well i'm certainly glad to see architects&engineers at the top :)

Was trying to find video that explains the best about the challenge and this one was the best, just sent them this video

Thanks for sharing this amazing information!

Very good message.

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.

@sherrelllouis5546

6 жыл бұрын

Did you give them the same time frame for both individual and team collaborative work? 10 minutes?

Im doing it in my class, really fun!

Love this! I'll be trying this with my kindergarten class next year :D

@konstantinos7024

4 жыл бұрын

How it went?? 😂

@howdysecret7036

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh

I could send this video to every overwatch player I know

@quandmeme9970

4 жыл бұрын

Games are opposite of the delayed gratification and fpss destroy brain's hipoccampus and neo cortex. lol

@Snow-fb7oy

4 жыл бұрын

@@quandmeme9970 have you ever played a game?

@pancho3495

3 жыл бұрын

And they still wouldn’t play objective.

It's a wery good exercise, we use it allot in our team building programs.

Love that 480p

team work makes the dream work !

We did this in business class and my group did it in 16 min standing tall on its own. Took picture to prove it.

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.

one of the best talks so far!

We did this today at Massey university and it was about 75cm high, very fun!

4:49 shows what happens when people strive too much for results - many will recognise this in their businesses.

@CutieRingoJoy

4 жыл бұрын

Gavin Ingham unless your experience with building things

This is very educational.

what is a good description of the video as a whole

no matter how sturdy the tower or how much imagination goes into a tower it will never be able to deflect the emerald splash

THIS IS FACINATING!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!

me too as I am studying that ! :D

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.

Morale of the story: hire kindergartners.

@molotera8789

4 жыл бұрын

“It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” - Pablo Picasso

@rigdigwus

3 жыл бұрын

actually it is hire engineers and architects

thanks

very good videos thank you very much for this job !!!!!!!

@shamshamza9577

5 жыл бұрын

thank you bro

@shamshamza9577

5 жыл бұрын

your welcom

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

What are the important elements for building an effective team?

we did that once with sheets of paper, some tape and a pair of scissors... was fun.

try it 2 weeks ago at JCLC...our tower was only 7 cm...

Planning and organzing are enough for team?

fantastic

I can't hear the video clips ㅠㅠㅠ

Would love to see mechanical/civil engineers vs electrical engineers.

Has Tom or somebody been able to adapt some form of this or another suitable challenge for online classes

Did this back when I went to high school.

his face lights up when he talks about the 39 inch structure, if you catch my drift.

Very interesting

1:05～4:34 6:15～6:43

Very gooooood🖤

Awesome

yeaaaahhhh go engineers!

We did this experiment in our communication class

His script has been published in high school textbooks across Japan.

i had to do this in class and my group's tower was 2 inches!!! :D

And go architects too!

The content seems so similar to a book - How to create successful teams

3:43

A Marshmallow challenge explanation start by 5:25

*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 have a daughter currently in kindergarten. We could all learn a thing or two from them...

재밌네요~

I didn't realize that this actually was ten years old!

i did this in my class

im doin this at collage tommoro lol

wow, if thats actually true, although highly doubtful, thats impressive

a team in my class today got 53 (grade 8)

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

The audio is gone.

which business school did you graduate from?

Prototyping - Coursera 2020 Here :)

yea hahah....we were asked to do the same in our cultural training program.... n I must he is right..we engineers did it well...

Does anybody know a similar team build challenge to this?

i did this in class today, and damn it was hard

@therealspookspeak

3 жыл бұрын

We use straws instead of spaghettis

I'm studing architecture, and my design teacher make us do this, my record is 63 cm.

@user-nn3rj1zr8z

4 жыл бұрын

My record is 97

3:05

Providing incentives to a team may not always produce success, depending on their skills/competency..

1:47 1:59 2:02 2:14 2:17 2:25 2:35 3:06 3:16 3:57 3:59 4:33

did he do it in 18 minutes?

Random people reasoning in group beat individual Harvard bred student in logical task (at the Wason Selection Task), by far, (70% success against 20% success), ee Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber, 2017, The Enigma of Reason, on this.

Brilliant!!!

@euph0rya672

4 жыл бұрын

Samson Oke boomer

good

5:58

ie: Agile > Waterfall

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.

@MsSofia881

9 жыл бұрын

we watched the video after the exercise and could totally relate. give the task to a team and watch them.

@justinsofo9280

5 жыл бұрын

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.

21.5 inches on my first try. Coulda went higher but we didn't use all of the spaghetti sticks

my group got 34.5 inches in class today OWNAGE!

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 :/

@MajorGrooves

5 жыл бұрын

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!

4:17

I am learning how to do a marshmallow challenge.