On October 15, 2008 students at BBHS and Mentors from Ethicon met at Bound Brook High School for a general meeting. This meeting was in efforts to show off the great 2008 ROBOT to new team members and also to have a Catapult Competition!
About two weeks prior to this meeting, students were given a Catapult building kit. They allowed to either work in pairs or work by them selves to design a catapult that would be able to hit a certain target. The target distance was not disclosed to the group. Students were also told that they must use the kitted parts, but were not forbidden from altering the design with additional parts.
On the day of the competition, 16 teams presented their catapult designs to the Ethicon panel of judges. They were judged based on several criterion. Before the actual firing of the catapults, each design was judged on the Construction Quality, Team Imagery, Engineering Quality and Experimental Design. To assess point value for each of the categories, teams were asked questions to inquire their engineering know how about the catapult. Upon completion of the initial evaluation by a panel of judges, each team was given 3 tries to fire the catapult to a target of 25 feet. Winner of the Catapult competition were based on combine score from both sections.
The winner of the Catapult competition was TEAM 8! They had the highest scores in the initial judging competition and came 4 inches from the target point. CONGRATULATIONS TEAM 8!
Upon completion of the Catapult competition, each team was given a price for competing! Overall the event was a GREAT SUCCESS!
The general meeting ended with new students getting a feel for driving 2008 ROBBE.
The next meeting will be held October 29th!!
PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT TO FOLLOW!!
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