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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Catapult Engineering For King Richard The 3rd

 On Tuesday afternoon the year sixes got into groups of 3 and 4 then attempted to build a catapult. I was in a group of 4 with Hudson, Jaelyn-Marie and Manaaki. We got the materials that we were going to use, the materials were 30 bamboo sticks, 30 rubber bands, 1 roll of electric tape, string, scissors, two A4 paper, 1 A3 paper, measuring tape and 1 ping pong ball. We had to launch 1 ping pong ball at least 3 metres using the materials that we were given. Then we brainstormed for a bit, after we finished brainstorming we built a sturdy structure made out of bamboo sticks and rubber bands. The thing I found hard was building the launching part of the build. But then we started to talk with each other, then we came up with multiple ideas but we finished just as the time was up so that was a bit dumb but we had fun. I think we did really good at the base and how sturdy it was. I think we need to improve on communicating with each other.


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