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Cup Tower next ZOOMsci | ZOOMsci index | list of activities | Your Results Sent in by: Molly W. of Troy, NY The sky's the limit. Build a tower as high as you can using only cups. Materials needed:
Instructions: 1. Build it! How high did you get your cup tower to go? 2. Why do you think it went as high as it did? 3. Did you remember to empty the cups first? You can also send us your pictures or video of this ZOOMsci: ZOOMsci ZOOM Box 350 Boston, MA 02134 Some of your results: Devon & Delaney, age 8 of Boyds, MD wrote: We used 38 cups in our tower. It fell only 3 times. We used colorful cups. It was 2 feet high and 2 feet long. It looks like a crooked castle. Jasmine, age 12 of St. Paul, MN wrote: When I did the cup Tower I got 100 cups to stay for the whole day and night. Soren & Drew, age 11 of Colville, WA wrote: We made a colloseum shape that was 31 cups high and 11 around. Amber, age 8 of TN wrote: I got to ten cup stacks and then when my cats came they knocked it over. Reganne, age 6 of Piqua, OH wrote: I tried the cup tower several times because it kept falling as the tower got taller. But then I got it to stack all the way with a little help from my dad. My tower stacked up 11 rows high! Chelsy, age 9 of Adams, MA wrote: It got to 14 cups then fell. Jamie, age 12 of Helena, MT wrote: When I used smaller cups it didn't get as big because there was not enough support. When I used the bigger cups it worked better because it had more support. Ernst, age 10 of Nyc, NY wrote: When I made the cup tower, I had 20 cups over each other and it became wobly and it fell. What I want you guys to do is make two teams and try to make the biggest tower the fastest with the most cups. Rachel, age 13 of Princeton, NJ wrote: I built one with 6 on the bottom, then 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1, then one with 4 on the bottom then 3, 2, and 1, then one with 2 on the bottom, then 1, and it was really cool! Isabel & Cameron of Seattle, WA wrote: We used one paper cup each and we stood on it and it worked! The plastic cups crushed. Then we used a smaller paper cup and it crushed too. Katie, age 10 of Austin, TX wrote: I stood on all ten syraphome cups and went down to six. Amanda, age 10 of Hot Springs, AR wrote: It stood up with 100 cups. Tris, age 10 of Flushing wrote: It is a pyramid tower! It look cool! 1. U put ten cups in a line. Then u know what to do. U put 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Then u did a pyramid tower! Macy, age 10 of Fitchburg, MA wrote: I used all the cup I had. I got up to 13 floors. It stayed up for 46 minutes. Tiffany, age 11 of Chattanooga wrote: I got up to 50 cups then it fell down. Michael, age 9 of Atlata, GA wrote: I was able to build a tower straight up. Kirk, age 10 of Northhollywood, CA wrote: First I got a few cups. I put all of them as a tower when I put the last one it fell. So I sugest I should put less cups then it work. Bobby of Independence, MO wrote: It worked great until a kid knocked it over. I had 17 cups in one single tower (no base) Jessica, age 10 of Holland, OH wrote: It stayed, for about 10 minutes, and it would have stayed longer if my dog hadn't knocked it down. Morgan, age 9 of Winnipeg wrote: It went as big as 82 cups high. The second time I trid it the cups went up 100 cups high. Faria, age 10 of Randoplh, NJ wrote: I had put 54 cups on top of each other. Afterwards, it fell down. I was surprised that many cups took to fall down. Princess Mae of General Santos City wrote: Well at first it did great. Then when it reach about high of the ceiling, my mom said to stop it or go outside and continue it there. And we did it took 5 days to get it that high because some was falling down. It took 5 feet high it broke down when me and my partner sneezed. Jered, age 10 of Berwick, PA wrote: When I built a cup tower, when I got to the 12 th one it fall down. Nolan, age 6 of Urbandale, IA wrote: I had to count my cups to know how big I could make my tower. Then I had to figure out how many went on the bottom layer, so I wouldn't run out of cups. I started with the largest cups and used them as my base and used smaller cups for the top of my tower. Cassie, age 10 of Dayton, OH wrote: It worked realy well until my sister slamed the door that made it fall over oh well it was fun making it I got up to about 175 cups all together while making it. Katie, age 12 of Neoga, IL wrote: Tried the cup tower at my house but I used glass cups. My mom put pading down for me and my friend so we did'nt brake anything. It was 9 in a half feet tall. It started to lean so my mom decided to call it quit while we were ahead but we all Got to get it measured!!! Kolden, age 10 of West Jordan, UT wrote: While I was stacking the cups and it lost its balance and it fell to the ground. Alena, age 10 of Geneva, NY wrote: What happend was I stacked the cups and I used 100 of them and when I reached 100 they fell down. Laura, age 7 of East Petersburg, PA wrote: When it got to about twenty one inches it fell down. I used twentyseven cups.
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