Fun With Catapults

(By Taylor Carolus)
Fun With Catapults
The seniors at North High have been building catapults. They have a week to work on them and they have a limited amount of supplies they can use. You get to use popsicle sticks, glue, and dental floss to build your catapult.
Casey says, “Its hard building it with the supplies you can use.”
They get to launch the catapults in the atrium so watch out for flying marshmallows. You get graded on how far your big and small marshmallow goes, and your catapult can’t break.
The teachers even moved the due date back a day so people would have more time to work on the catapults. The physics classes were supposed to work on the project over Halloween weekend and not many people did.
It takes roughly two hours to build a catapult and it is best if you decorate it to make it look sweet. Some people paint theirs black or some use colored popsicle sticks.
It will be a serious contest to see whose catapult will shoot the marshmallow the farthest, but it will be exciting to see the winner.