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 ...

It's an annual tradition for students at one local high school that makes physics fun. Each fall, usually on Halloween, the physics department at Windham High School holds Trebuchet Day.For about a ...

Upland High School students took to the field with homemade trebuchets Friday, Oct. 6, to test their physics prowess by flinging objects as far as they could. Trebuchets are a type of catapult that ...

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 ...

SULLIVAN - Sullivan High School students constructed trebuchets this year in physics class. The 14 seniors designed and built four different trebuchets using their own materials. The construction ...

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - Washington Township High School students in Amy Carpinelli's College Prep Physics classes recently had the opportunity to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply ...

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, ...

Chandler Wallace, left, and Brady Bales watch a tomato launch as Central High School's STEM class tries out catapults and trebuchets that they made in class on April 31, 2015. Central High School's ...

“A surprising amount of stuff gets wasted every year because consumers can’t get it out of the packaging it came in,” writes Katie Palmer, who covers the science beat at Wired. In her article “The ...