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

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander is putting together something that... pretty much looks like a giant mousetrap, with the pumpkin to be placed in a battered spaghetti-steamer pot that he's bolted to the top of the steel frame handle of heavy old (but still gasoline-powered) push mower.

The handle is still attached to the mower, but he's taken the wheels off, weighted the base down with bricks, and strung a double-handful of short bungee cords between the mower and the middle bar of the handle. Pulling the handle back on its hinges now stretches the bungee cords promisingly, while not rocking the base off the ground, and a medium-sized pumpkin fits nicely into the bolted-on stockpot.