I really enjoyed both building activities, canstruction and straw structures. This week we built structures out of drinking straws and tape. We were given the task of building the tallest possible structure with value spent for building materials and value gained for reaching height cut-offs, creativity, and stability.
I found it really difficult when we were given time where only I could talk. Kristen and Brett were good at coming up with ideas and writing or drawing them. We used Kristen's idea to build a hemisphere dome at the base and have one long piece of single connected straws coming through the center. This worked well and won the creativity award, but it was not a very stable structure because the single strand extended way above the dome. All of the creativity workshops were enjoyable and great teambuilding exercises. In the future, I think these workshops should be held closer to the beginning of the semester to strengthen groups when everyone is new.

~Josh