As a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) enthusiast, I love giving my kids open-ended challenges where they need to use their own creativity and ingenuity to solve a problem.
Here’s a Tower Building challenge I gave to my kids – and that your children might enjoy as well!
Tower Building Challenge Directions
Your challenge: Build the tallest tower you can.
These are the rules:
Steam Tower’s central feature is the tower-climbing Free Spins game. Once you land the Stacked Wild, the standing hero, fully on the reels, the game will activate. The hero will prime his grappling hook and begin to ascend the tower, giving you 10 free spins and 2x win multiplier to begin climbing. The gameplay differs, as Tower feature in the Steam Tower slot is triggered by a Stacked Wild covering the entire reel. You will get 10 free spins and be taken to the first floor of the tower which you need to climb up to rescue the princess. There are sixteen floors in total, meaning that you will have only fifteen more to go. The Steam Tower slot machine is developed by NetEnt. This is an unusual slot in the steampunk style. It has 15 fixed paylines. For the spinning, 5 reels are used. Each of the reels can bring the payouts with the multipliers of up to 2,000. There are also more generous winnings because the game includes a number of profitable bonuses.
- Your tower must be free standing (i.e., not touching anything but the floor).
- You can only use two types of materials (e.g., paper and tape, straws and play dough, paper cups and craft sticks).
So select two types of material and start building!
Get creative. Try different materials. Experiment with different bases for your structure. And most importantly, have fun!
For example, your children can build a tower using foam blocks and shaving foam.
The free Steam Tower slot machine is a brand new slot machine consisted of 5 reels, released in 2015 by Net Entertainment Company. It combines many innovative and advanced features that make up the reputation of NetEnt. Steam Tower captures the blend between historical accuracy and mystery perfectly, in NetEnt’s leading steampunk-inspired slots game. Start spinning from as little as £0.15 per spin, right up to £150 a go. Along the way, you can pick up free spins and multipliers as you climb to level 16 of the tower.
Or build a tower out of toothpicks and gum drops.
Steam Tower Unite
The key to any good tower is to start with a strong base. So encourage your child to build a strong, wide base that will provide a firm foundation for the tower as it goes up.
Below are three towers built by others using just two materials each. Note that in all cases the base is at least somewhat wider than the top of the tower.
And if you feel so inclined, please send me a photo of your tower so I can see what you did!
Steampower.com
Want more Stay-At-Home STEAM Challenges?
Tricky Towers Steam
Check out the following challenges from my Stay-At-Home STEAM Challenge collaborators:
Www.steampowered.com/agreement
- Make It Go STEAM Challenge from Geek Pack Hack
- Cargo Boat STEAM Challenge from The Homeschool Scientist
- Egg Drop Challenge from iGame Mom