Final competition for Kappa

IM ready to win

Kappa team is about to do their competition and they are ready to win. Kappa team won the distance competition over everyone, but we lost the accuracy competition. Our trebuchet shoot 32ft from the start. With the accuracy competition we couldn’t make our throwing are go slow.

Kappa team is testing their work

Matt is ready to shoot

The kappa team is testing their trebuchet to see how the accuracy and distance is. In distance they shoot atleast 25 ft and in accuracy around 13-14ft but the target is about 15ft away. we lightened the throwing arm so it will thorw farther than it did when we started.

Kappa’s team is done building

Matt and Adam is done building their trebuchet. They have worked on it from day one till now and have finally finished it. They are about to go test their trebuchet to see how it works.

Kappa working on their trebuchet

almost finished

Matt is working on Kappa’s team trebuchet to get it done before the competition. Kappa team is tring to get the trebuchet done so we can test it and fix any adjustments needed before we compete with the others.

Kappa’s Work

Kappa team does work on the computer to meet the deadline for building. Kappa team makes drawing’s of their trebuchet for their dimensions to build their trebuchet. The trebuchet project consists of The research paper, Drawings, Data, Throwing arm, Base, Counterweight, Sling, trigger, 3 gram projectile

Alomst ready to build

Kappa team does research

adam and matt

Kappa team does research from one of their favorite sites http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/trebuchet.htm. We found out a lot on what trebuchet could throw in the middle ages. We also found out that a trebuchet is better with wheels than without wheels