Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

popular Lawrence Tech student competition projects is the National PumpkinChuckin’ Competition (http://www.punkinchunkin.com/), where large trebuchets are designedand built to launch pumpkins. Trebuchets are like catapults but operate more like a giantslingshot. They are typically more than 20 feet tall. Some of the trebuchets launch pumpkins Page 10.546.14 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnearly a half mile. The Lawrence Tech trebuchet is on display for the visiting students and one-gallon