Saturday, December 22, 2012

Trebuchet Build - Take 2

Steven arrived home from school recently saying that he had been assigned to build a trebuchet for his science class. Many of you don't know this, but I'm somewhat of an expert at thinking about building medieval siege engines.The actual engineering portion - I'm not so good at.

I did complete a model here and had high hopes of building something a little larger.

Mary took Steven to the hardware store for some raw materials and we set off the build. As we neared completion, Steven commented that this was much more fun that just reading an assigned science book.

"You. Could. Have. Read. A. Book?!?!" Mary exclaimed.

Note to us - when Steven announces a difficult sounding school assignment, we should ensure there isn't an alternate assignment that would fulfill the requirement.



I think we're ready to go full-scale.
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  1. Robert22 December, 2012 18:29

    I am in awe! When I was Steven's age I think the coolest thing I had ever built was a paper towel holder (which really wasn't that cool, even though my mom said it was).

    Never in my life have I regretted not being held back a grade or two if this is what they get to do in school today!!

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  2. Ella23 December, 2012 08:10

    You guys are the coolest! Nice job!!! If I come over, can we launch some pumpkins?

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  4. Kylee28 December, 2012 09:05

    You guys are amazing! I could never get something like that to work. ever.

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