Cup Tower Team Challenge

Looking for an engaging STEM activity that gets students thinking, communicating, and working together?

The Cup Tower Team Engineering Challenge transforms a simple cup-stacking activity into a complete engineering investigation.

Students plan a strategy, collect data, redesign their approach, analyze class results, and reflect on the teamwork skills engineers use every day.

This printable resource encourages collaboration while reinforcing observation, communication, engineering design, and evidence-based reasoning.

Included

• Team Engineering Mission
• Data Collection
• Team Reflection
• Teamwork Rubric
• Graphing Activity
• Data Analysis Questions
• Extended Response Writing
• Printable PDF

Whether you're introducing STEM at the beginning of the school year or looking for an engaging engineering challenge, this resource is ready to print and use.