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Tower of power

Team Awesome from the Waldorf School
Tower of power
Annual contest gets students noodling around
Published Feb 23, 2024
National Engineers Week competition pits area middle schoolers against Hopkins undergrads to build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows
Local middle schoolers build a tower out of spaghetti and held together with marshmallows
Engineering
Carbs, creativity, and competition
Published Feb 24, 2022
Annual Tower of Power event challenges budding engineers to build structures out of dry spaghetti and marshmallows
Participants build structures from marshmallows and pasta at Tower of Power
Tower of Power
Edible engineering
Published Feb 25, 2020
Annual competition challenges students from Baltimore schools to build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows
Team builds a tower out of dry spaghetti
Spaghetti structures
Published Feb 22, 2019
National Engineers Week competition challenges students, alumni, and community to use their noodles
National Engineers Week
Sugar high
Published Feb 25, 2016
Teams in annual competition build a structure from dry linguine and marshmallows