straw+tower+project

At first we started by trying to make a tower that would come up like a pyramid. We were going to make 10 diffrent pieces with them getting smaller as the tower got higher and we would have layers of straws for each one of the bases. This idea did not work well because it took to much time to put together and was using to many straws to make. Our new idea was to make squares out if 4 straws and then we would put the squares together in order to make a triangular prism. We plan on stacking these prisms together in order to make the base and then making in come up in a point in order to have it look similar to a pyramid. We expect our tower to stand up at 10 feet for over a minute and hopefully will win.