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Step One:?Schedule a MeetingFind 45-60 minutes when your team can fully engage in the challenge. I’ve run challenges with groups containing as four people to as many as 800 people. Ensure that you have tables for each team.Step Two:?Assemble a Kit for Each TeamIn advance of the meeting, create a marshmallow challenge kit for each team, with each kit containing twenty sticks of spaghetti, one yard of masking tape, one yard of string and one marshmallow. These ingredients should be placed into a paper lunch bag, which simplifies distribution and hides the contents, maximizing the element of surprise.?Spaghetti:?Ensure that you use uncooked spaghetti. Avoid spaghettini as it is too thin and breaks easily. Fettucini is too thick.??String:?Include string that can be easily broken by hand. If the string is thick, include scissors in your kit.??Marshmallow:?Use a name brand or private label brand of marshmallows that measure the ‘standard’ size, about an inch an a half across. Avoid mini or jumbo marshmallows. Also avoid stale marshmallows. You’ll want squishy marshmallows that give the impression of lightness.?Masking Tape:?Get standard masking tape. Generally, you’ll want to put the tape on the side of the table, the back of a chair or a nearby wall. Rolling it in the bag tangles the tape.?Paper Lunch Bags:?Standard size lunch bags work well as do letter size manilla envelops.Also ensure that you have the following tools to run the challenge:?Measuring Tape:?Have a contractor’s retractable measuring available after the challenge is finished so you can measure the height of the structures.??Countdown Application or Stopwatch:?The actual marshmallow challenge takes eighteen minutes. Eighteen minutes seems to be the magic time. Twenty minutes is too long and fifteen is too short. You can use a stopwatch, but better yet is to use a video projector and display the countdown time. For Shareware Windows applications, consider?/ and/blog/2009/08/21/simple-countdown-timer-for-win