School District of Washington

Four Rivers Career Center Engineering Students Participate in Catapult Demonstration

Posted on 12/13/2022

Engineering students in Nick Straatmann’s class at Four Rivers Career Center had a catapult demonstration on Friday, December 9. Students researched, designed, and constructed siege machines with the help of the Building Trades and Machine Tool programs.

The students demonstrated how their designs worked by launching tennis balls at targets on the FRCC campus. Students from other programs were on hand to watch the demonstration.

Pictures from the engineering project are below.