Given: Two pans, 2 small paper plates, a few sheets of paper, 2 straws, a rubber band, scissors and tape.
Your mission is to build a catapult that will throw 3″ x 3″ pieces of paper that are crumpled up. You have 10 minutes to plan, (you may talk and look through the materials given) and five minutes to build and test.
Scoring: -25 points if catapult fails, 2 points per every inch the paper moves. Maximum 15 points for creativity and aesthetics.