3. The challenge
● Deliver a pitch for a high-tech product
● You will be working in teams of four
● Goal:
○ Work together
○ Apply (some of) the concepts/approaches you will be
learning
○ Have fun!
● Pitching session: 4.45pm on Thursday
● Pitch: 6’ (sharp), unlimited # of slides
● Convince the jury that they should invest in your
business venture
● Jury:
○ Erik + Julie
4. The teams
Team Blue
● Dimitrios
● Paulo
● Mulugeta
● Mozhdeh
Team Red
● Davaa
● Lily
● Felipe
● Hamid
10. The team that wins the knockout session
will choose which product to pitch
11. Rules of the game
● What you get
○ 25 spaghetti
○ 1 marshmallow
○ ~1 m of string
○ ~1 m of tape
● You can use only what you get
● No Internet allowed (AKA no cheating)
● Goal
○ Build the tallest self-standing tower with the marshmallow on top
○ I measure the height and declare the winner
12. Rules of the game (2)
● You can’t split/cut the marshmallow
○ Can’t be used to sustain the structure, should be on top
● You can cut spaghetti
● You can tape your structure to the desk
● Bonus of 10cm if you replicate the Eiffel tower
20’ time from the moment I shout ‘Start’
16. This training material is part of the FogGuru project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765452. The
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