How To Establish A Catapult

Two words no one wants to hear come out of a teacher’s mouth: “math project.” That’s right, I, along with the rest of the math class was assigned a math project in which we had to build a functioning catapult that would launch a ping pong ball at least 3 meters in order to get it inside a small box. Talk about complicated. To make matters worse, we did not have the liberty to choose our own groups and enjoy myself while working on the project because she assigned the groups too. The group that I was in, wasn’t too terrible, but it could have been better. Once we all got settled in, my group went to the most right corner of the room near the door, to work on our catapult. We strategically chose this area with precise calculations to get the seat next to the power outlet so we wouldn’t have to move to use the hot glue gun, since we can just plug it in the wall. Or we ended up sitting there for no other reason than just dumb luck. I’d like to believe the first scenario actually happened, but I’m …show more content…
“I mean the catapult already looks bad, it couldn’t get worse, right?” But as it goes, of course it would get worse. On the third launch, the spoon snapped off, and due to the amount of power the mousetrap brings, it sent vibrations to the rest of the foundation of the catapult which ended up making it fall down and break. Talk about unlucky. We kind of didn’t know what to do. The catapult was due the next day, there were ten minutes left to the period, and we couldn’t remake the catapult in that short amount of time. We just sat there and I’m sure a little bit of each of our hearts broke a little. Finally we stood up and just when we were about to tell out teacher about the news, a miracle happened. She announced that she would move the due date three whole days. That was way more than enough time than we needed so we were