Tower of Power

Celebrate National Engineers Week with Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering!

Tower of Power 2026 will take place in-person on the JHU Homewood Campus on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. 

A Tower of Power in a Half Hour  

A Middle School National Engineering Week Challenge 

The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering celebrates National Engineers Week (February 23-27, 2026) by inviting schools to build a tower from spaghetti and marshmallows. Twenty-five teams from the Greater Baltimore area are invited to JHU’s Tower of Power event to build their towers and compete with undergraduate students, alumni, and faculty teams. 

If your school has questions about participating in the Tower of Power competition email us at stemoutreach@jhu.edu.

Deadline for School Signups: 11:59PM on February 6, 2026 

Specifics

Schools need to complete the registration form with all relevant information by the deadline of February 6th. Important Note: A parent/guardian must accompany each middle school student that will be competing, as well as complete the required forms. Team registrations will be confirmed with the school contact by February 9th.

Hints: Triangles are rigid. Structures using triangles tend to be strong. Note all the triangular trusses in the picture. Long lengths of spaghetti will bend. It’s probably better to have several short sections rather than one long section. 

Experiment! Design! Build!