Our Engineering Challenge

There has been a disaster! Your civilization was rocked by an earthquake, and you must rebuild one building (compound sentence). Because of the earthquake, you have a limited amount of supplies with which to rebuild.

Teams of students were challenged to build the tallest structure they could in eight minutes. The structure had to be free-standing, and then had to be placed on four squares at the end of the table without falling over. The structure had to touch all four squares.