Straw Tower Challenge - MIDDLE SCHOOL - STEM Engineering
Give teams fifty straws and one hundred paper clips to design the tallest freestanding tower they can build within the challenge rules. Students sketch a plan, build, test a 100 g load for thirty seconds, then refine the structure and reflect on stability and teamwork. Teacher guidance, a blueprint page and a science briefing support the lesson, with extension questions connecting classroom designs to larger engineering problems.
