Pumpkin Catapult

For Halloween, we created a challenge that mixed our love for science and spooky festivities. What is one way to throw a pumpkin without using your hands? A catapult! We challenged CPA students to create a pumpkin catapult and see which catapult can throw the pumpkin the farthest.

The winning prizes are: 1st place - Knotts Berry Farm tickets (with two friends); 2nd place - Movie tickets; 3rd place - Free Dress day and a special lunch.

We started off by making a presentation to explain the challenge, this presentation contained a video that showed how to create a catapult.The next step was to show this presentation to the students around our school. (Presentation) After doing so, many people signed up for the challenge!


While building the catapult we faced many challenges in the design process such as the catapult not being the right angle for the Pumpkin (Orange) to be launched in the air.

The trip to Knotts was fun we all were able to experience something that we all have not experienced before.The day there was super fun we went on a lot of roller coaster possibly like 6 or 5.