CES third-grade students take on the tower challenge - and win!

Here’s the challenge: take 20 index cards and 18 inches of tape and create a tower as tall as you can that will be sturdy enough to hold a stuffed animal.

Seth VanGaasbeek’s third grade students at Circleville Elementary School took that challenge and created some pretty interesting towers that were able to hold that teddy bear.

Three third-grade students work at a desk building a structure with index cards.

The tallest in the class was 12 inches. Mr. VanGaasbeek showed the students that the triangle form is the strongest, demonstrating it by using a few index cards folded together into triangles and building on that. His tower was able to hold a book and a Chromebook!

Three third-grade boys stand looking at a structure they built using index cards and tape. One boy's eyes are wide open in amazement, another has his arms up in the air cheering. The third is looking at his teacher who is standing there with a yardstick measuring it.

The students worked together in small groups, strategizing, debating and building. It was both fun and very informative! It brought out a bit of good competition too.

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CES third-grade students take on the tower challenge – and win!