We have really enjoyed online webinars with Mark “The Science Guy” as part of Engineers Week. Miss O’Connell challenged the children to create a tower using toothpicks and marshmallows. Construction challenges provide a fabulous opportunity for the development of a range of important skills: inventiveness, problem solving, creative thinking, perseverance, motivation and the ability to overcome disappointment, evaluation, editing and revision, analytical thinking and the use of a range of real life tools. It was wonderful to watch the children work collaboratively to find solutions to the challenge.