As of last weekend, DD1 has been signed up for a new event for the State tournament - Trajectory... She is also doing Road Scholar and Oceanography Her team won District and Regional! Whoo hoo!!!!
has anyone here done this and have any pointers? The paperwork she brought home is rather vague on the construction, her teacher has not been able to stay after to help this last week and she has a week and a half to make a model to see if she can really enter or not. Basically it says Teams will design, construct, calibrate and operate a device capable of launching a projectile into a target using energy provided by nonmetallic elastic solids. The device must fit inside an 80cm cube. It must be launched remotely but not by radio signal. The projectile will be a pliable, hollow ball btwn 3 and 9 cm in diameter. The target areas will be between 2 and 8 meters from the launch area at two different levels. I think that sums up most of it...Altho I do know that the force has to come from the elastic solid (ie no stored energy).
Her teammate is coming over tomorrow to work with her.
found this
DH has a huge crew coming over to work on model rockets tomorrow too. lol