About
About the Project.
Popsicle Catapults is a project that combines the sciences of gravity and air resistance with engineering and actually building a catapult. The simplicity of this type of catapult allows the inventors to really see how every small detail in a catapult works. The end goal is to create a catapult that can launch the given object, which can be a marshmallow, a ping pong ball, an eraser, etc, the farthest!
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How To:
This is an individual project so make sure each one of you has your 1 spoon, 7 sticks, and 5 rubber bands.
First, take 5 of your 7 sticks and line stack them all up. Then take one of your rubber bands and tie them around one end of the stack of sticks. Take another rubber band in do the same thing to the other end of the stack of sticks: tie them around the stack (tightly!). Take the 6th popsicle stick as well as 2 rubber bands and tie the stem of the spoon to the popsicle stick (tightly!). Then tie the bottom end of the spoon-tied-popsicle stick to the last remaining popsicle stick. Lastly, place the original stack of 5 popsicle sticks in between the the other 2 popsicle sticks as shown in the picture, and you are ready for launch!
You can adjust your catapult by adding more or less popsicle sticks in the center stack of sticks as well.
Compete with your friends by placing the catapult in a designated area, placing, your item on the spoon, pulling the spoon back, and launching it to see how far it goes!
