Friday, May 01, 2009

Science Fair Trebuchet

Students at the Charles Henderson Middle School in Troy, Alabama built a working trebuchet for their science fair project, along with a poster discussing the history of the weapons.


From left to right: Robert Salmon, Jude Taylor, and Preston Rhodes.

Pretty cool, eh? A teacher asked them what they planned to do with it, and they said they didn't know. If I had a place to put it, I'd buy it off them and use it to besiege my enemies.

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3 comments:

  1. Stephen Karlson3:15 PM

    Any of those young men ever participate in 4-H, or contemplated punkin' chunkin'?

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  2. Anonymous7:48 AM

    The trebuchet was really cool! (: Robert built a mini one for Mr. Woodham's classroom that shot rocks.

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  3. Linda C. McCabe10:05 AM

    Yeah, just quietly put that in the back of the room during a faculty meeting. "Speak softly, but control a trebuchet."

    It could change the course of an otherwise boring meeting.

    Word verification: tater. Wha? I can actually make that out as a word. Has Blogger lost its maniacal touch?

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