Spaghetti and marshmallow activity

During one of our first classes we did an activity where we had to build the tallest tower possible out of pasta and it has to be strong enough to hold a marshmallow on top. This activity required us to work as a group and we saw how everyone works together. We were able to build a structure but unfortunately in the last 3 seconds it collapsed. Then we watched the ted talk where it talked about how kindergartners are usually the most successful because they try multiple structures to see which could hold the marshmallow the best, and business graduates did the worst because they think there is only one good way to build it and wait till the last moment to see if it holds the marshmallow and then it collapses. I realized after the video that we are somewhere in between because we tried multiple ways to make it stronger or taller but we also were so focused on trying one design but making it better that it only stood for so long and collapsed at the very end.