Shop Class: [3/27]

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As the students enter into the classroom, they'll see that it has been transformed into the now familiar junkyard.

Only thing out of place? Would be the pile of pumpkins sitting on the ground.

"Today's assignment will carry over until Wednesday's class. Today your goal is to build a device that will hurl a pumpkin at a target. Your will be graded not only on the accuracy of your device but also distance. Today you will build your device, on Wednesday we will put it through its paces."

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Re: Assignment: 3/27

[nadiathesaint]

After considering and discarding ideas like building an air cannon (no idea how to build up that kind of pressure without destructifying the pumpkin), a catapult (counterweight? What? I'd have to do, like, physics to calculate that!) or a trebuchet (see above note on catapult), Nadia decided to go with the solution that every problem child and cartoon coyote will tell you is the best: a giant slingshot.

Of course, she didn't have a truck to mount the frame to, but she did managed to find a mostly broken down tractor in the junkyard that would suffice for aiming and braking purposes. And to that a piece of industrial rubber tubing sliced open length-wise, and she had a perfectly workable giant slingshot with which to chuck her pumpkins.

Of course, first she had to figure out how to get the damned thing loaded in order to get enough tension on the industrial strength rubber tubing for it to actually fling the thing anywhere. . . . Perhaps an old, hydrolic jack?

[ooc: it might be overkill, but this is what happens when you give me a prompt like the frickin' Pumpkin Chunkin. The year we went, the winner had their pumpkin go all the way to the end of the parking lot, about 300 yards away, to land on a police car. . . .]