GuessDImate!

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How many books can you stack before the pile tips over? How many beans will fit in a jar? How many people can fit in an elevator before the doors close? It’s anybody’s guess! If you love guessing games, you’ll love this Challenge! Build a Structure of Wood and Glue and estimate how many pounds of weight it can hold. Win Bonus Pounds if your estimate is close! Gather the data you’ll need by building and breaking many Structures until your guesses are on the mark. Using your best GuessDImate!, tell the Appraisers how much weight your Structure will hold BEFORE you load it up!

Prep Appraiser Patti from Arkansas Checks off the requirements for the Georgetown, IL GuessDImate team.
Georgetown makes a last minute adjustment.

Teams admired this mosiac waterfall on their many trips up and down the escalators.

Cinco Ranch HS from Texas gets ready to present their GuessDImate solution. The team presented a montage of familiar fairy tales with a twist. Their scenery was a giant pop-up card. .

Rump and Stiltskin plan to fool the princess.
The prop was a carousel.

The prince arrives.

The princess is transformed into a witch.

One of the little pigs also makes its appearance.
The rest of the team works hard stacking the weights.

The Harker Elementary School from CA GuessDImate team visited Jellybean Land.

This New Jersey GuessDImate team used elaborate scenery in their skit about the old clock tower.

The team from Huntingborg, Indiana used a risky two-part structure.

The Indiana team had a woodsy theme.
The woodland creatures all get together.