in an elective in hs, about engineering, our first assignment was this: create a tower out of 1 sheet of paper (11x8.5) and 6 inches of tape (i may be mistaken, it might be 12 inches).
each inch the tower comes off the ground=1 point. the assignment is out of 100 points, so ideally i'd get something between 8 and 9 feet tall.
Any ideas as to how to do this? you can deduce a certain amount about what the tower will look like based on what a perfect score would be. you'd need 9 separate cuts of the paper length-wise. What I will do, so far, is cut larger pieces at first for the base, then progressively smaller, and then i'd roll them into circles. this works, although i dont think i'll get a decent height without it leaning over.
so yeah, any ideas?