Illinois School Counselor Association is the professional organization representing school counselors.
Supports school counselors efforts to promote academic, personal/social, emotional and career development.
Provides professional development.
Advocates for school counselors with legislators and other educational professionals.
The Marshmallow Challenge
The Marshmallow Challenge is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity.
The task is simple: in eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top. Instructions can be found here.
The marshmallow challenge provides teams with a shared felt experience, a common language and a solid stance to find the right prototypes to build their real projects successfully, to avoid the oh-oh moments and have real ta-dah moments.