ACE Team 7’s first session was the ever popular Spaghetti & Marshmallow Towers.
Every tower safely survived the Seismic Test, though there are rumors that some towers had more intense friction between continetal plates than others despite all being sited on the same chicago city block.
Clearly all the teams intuitively understood the concepts of lateral bracing and reinforcement.
In the end the race to be the tallest resembled the notorious world’s tallest contests in New York of the 1930’s with last minute spires being quickly erected in secret at the last possible moments.