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Shoe towers: Intelligent Fast Failure in action (in a safe environment)

It is always a good idea to practise a (new) skill as often as possible. In the Creativity, Innovation and Change course we were therefore given the task to build the highest shoe tower. You can take all kinds of different shoes and as many as you want. Try to stack as many as possible on top of each other to create the highest tower.

Click here to see some of our showtowers.

Here are a few points that we learnt...

Kids shoes are too small to build high towers.
We needed a stable base to stack more shoes on top of each other.
Big (high) boots are doing a great job in building a high tower. It takes several other shoes to create the height of just one boot.
Stacking several boots on top of each other created the highest tower we could build.
Putting the top shoe vertically into another one made the tour even higher.

Now it's up to you to add to this and build your own if you haven't done so already...
Enjoy and have fun!

If you don't have enough shoes to do this exercise don't despair. Another activity Jack Matson suggested was to build the highest paper tower out of a sheet of paper. Or how about trying the popsicle sticks experiment where the professor let his students build the tallest structure with popsicle sticks?!
Happy building!

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