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Paper Tower next ZOOMsci | ZOOMsci index | list of activities | Your Results Sent in by: Jen W. of Maple Springs, NY Another tall thing to make. Materials needed:
Instructions: 1. Using only 2 sheets of newspaper, build a structure as tall as you can. You can also send us your pictures or video of this ZOOMsci: ZOOMsci ZOOM Box 350 Boston, MA 02134 Some of your results: Richard, age 16 of Rockville, MD wrote: I built a tower with my other high school friends, but couldn't get it to stand up. How can you possibly use 2 sheets of newsprint to build a 4 foot tall tower? Andrew, Leila of Brattleboro, VT wrote: We built our tower up to 51 inches or 4 feet and 3 inches. Our tower was sturdy and would have stayed standing, but we tried to keep building and caused it to collapse. Kynthia, age 8 of Kansas wrote: It fell down and I had to put it back up. But it was hard. And I think it was fun. Michael N., age 6 of Bountiful, UT wrote: I built the tower and it did not work. There wasn't too much support I built it out of newspaper. I like trying Zoom experiments. Lisa J., age 11 of Bettendorf, IA wrote: I started to make it, but then I noticed that my hands were black! My mom made me stop Roque R., age 11 of Bronx, NY wrote: A picture of it is coming very soon! Amy L., age 10 of Fairfax, VA wrote: It stood up for 1 min and 10 sec. Roque R., age 11 of Bronx, NY wrote: My paper measured 176 inches tall! I did this by cutting the two sheets of paper in half the long way. Then folded each half sheet of paper long way. I put each paper on top of each other. But a few seconds later it fell. This happened because there was a lot of weight on the top. Roque R., age 11 of Bronx, NY wrote: I made another one that did not fall! It measures about 45in. I'm sending a picture of it very soon. Heather S., age 11 of Ashley, IL wrote: I built a five foot tower from the ground Care, age 15 of Littleton, CO wrote: I made the tower as tall as I could by taping it to the wall... it didn't say you could use that for support! Mandy A., age 12 of New Lenox, IL wrote: Mine got about 4 feet tall and stood for about 15 minutes before it collapsed. Tristan J., age 12 of Sandy, UT wrote: I made a 50ft paper tower Brandon P., age 9 of Deridder wrote: I did a structure like Jared and Lynese did. My tower folded long ways and it was 2 feet and 3 inches. I started to build it with squares but it did not work out. Erin F., age 8 of Willmar, MN wrote: I tryed and tryed so long and soon I got to stay one foot high but then it fell down again so I did it again and I made it stay one foot high again and I did it. Christopher, age 9 of Big Lake, AK wrote: I got it to be 10 and a half feet tall. Stephanie, age 9 of PA wrote: It was 2 feet, 2 inches high.
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