Engineering I Students Test Trebuchets

As their final exam, Engineering & Design I students had an hour to score at least 25 points firing a tennis ball at targets at a range of 50-100 feet and then 5 minutes to demonstrate that their trebuchet could launch the ball beyond the fence at the end of the basketball court to earn a bonus multiplier. Owen S from the E&D 2 class assisted me in conducting the tests by setting up the targets and helping to judge hits on targets. The majority of trebuchets earned the minimum points and had scores under 50 points. However, Jack J and Peter W earned a record-high score of 249 points with their device between consistently hitting high point-value targets and earning the bonus multiplier. Check out some testing photos.