5th Grade Marshmallow Challenge

I did the MC (Marshmallow Challenge) this year. The MC is a race of who can make the tallest 3D building out of 20 pieces of uncooked spaghetti, a yard of string and tape, and one marshmallow. The height only counts up to and including the marshmallow and putting spaghetti on top doesn't count. My team in my class was Gabriel, Kayla, Abigail, and I. We had an 18 minute time limit to build the structure. Gabriel took the pictures. Kayla and Abigail built most of it. I pitched in for building a little, but I had the idea of the structure. I think we worked well as a team. We tried two times. First we had a idea of straight up, but it didn't work. Instead we used the first idea as a support. The only problem was we kept on trying and it stood up strait, but the problem really was we put up the marshmallow last and the extra weight bent it down. I don't think I could make a taller structure because of the time and planning. I learned being under pressure sometimes makes it harder.