HOLLIS – There aren’t many high school classes in which a student can earn bonus points by hitting a teacher with a water balloon. But John Boucher’s physics class at Hollis/Brookline High School is ...

What goes up must come down. And what goes way, way up can come down way, way too fast to survive the sudden stop. That’s why [Tom Stanton] built an altitude recording projectile into an oversized ...

UPLAND >> By noon Wednesday, the soccer field at Upland High School was scattered with broken pumpkins, tennis balls and other projectiles launched by trebuchets built by physics students. The 380 ...

The students were able to use any materials they could think of to build their trebuchets. The only restrictions were that the trebuchet counterbalance weight had to be 2 kilograms or less, and that ...

Upland Unified students got medieval Friday morning. Trebuchets – medieval siege weapons that used slingshot technology to fling heavy rocks at castles once upon a time – sang out along the school’s ...

Seventeen students at Boyd-Buchanan School lined up on the football field making last minute adjustments to their homemade trebuchets, catapults and ballistas on Thursday afternoon. "Lengthen that ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Boyd Buchanan physics students built trebuchets over the past few days to see who could launch a softball the furthest while gaining hands-on experience with physics. “By ...

BALLSTON SPA — The baseball field at the Ballston Spa High School was under siege Tuesday morning as students launched pumpkins into the outfield from medieval-era weapons of war, including catapults, ...

Physics students braved the cold, rain and mess last week to compete in the 10th annual Pumpkin Launch at Medina High School. “It’s an opportunity for physics students to design and build a trebuchet ...