JETS

As in the club type thing, for those of you who don't know what JETS is, you can read about it at the Wikipedia article for the Junior Engineering Technical Society.

I decided to participate in JETS this year, because my school seemed a little short on members, so I thought I would take a shot at it. For the past three or four weeks I've been working (with three other people) on a trebuchet which we went to a competition for today. (Hooray no school)
For our first year my group didn't do bad, our trebuchet shot 71 feet at it's best which is pretty good for a first attempt in my opinion.

I took some pictures after we left the competition, sadly I forgot to take some right before we fired it, but oh well.

Warning; big images.

So that was what I did most of today, that and since we got back early from the competition,and nobody wanted to go back to school, I got to play Rockband at my teachers house. :tongue:
(Bit random thread, I know. Just felt like posting about it because I'm random like that. xD)

Looks like fun

Looks sort of like the catapult I saw in England, except a lot smaller :roflmao:

Trebuchets and catapults are a good bit different. :tongue:

It was a lotta fun though, hopefully my school does it next year. There's been rumors that the teacher that coordinates it might not do it next year. >.<

Well... you could always lead it :thumbsup:

I don't know enough to be able to help people build theirs. :/

I love making mini-trebuchets. I used to have a bunch of really small ones for launching marbles, I also had a lego one... It didn't work out so well...

wait..

What's it do? :huh:

Didn't see it in the Wiki.

They are normally about 100-200 feet tall and were used, mostly by the French, to slaughter Stone Walls, towers, and castles. They were the Nuke of their time.

Last year for a science project 2 kids in my grade built a trebuchet about 20 feet tall. It was insane, I didn't get to see it fire though.

Yours is pretty big, nice job.

Ours is roughly 5'4" in height with the arm straight up, and a little bit less then a 6x6 box in width.
The requirements for the competition are that it has to be 5'6" or shorter with the arm straight up, has to fit into a 6x6 box, and you can't stand inside the box (which they outline) while firing it.