Fun with Physics
T.J. Honnert
The most boring intersession in
Glen Este
Just Kidding!!!
The black one is my acme rocket. The grey one is Robs
Titan 2 the white one is Adams rocket. And the piece of
crap in the middle is Keith’s rocket (just kidding Keith)
This was boring. Sorry. But here is
Rob,Adam,Keith,John(out of the picture
getting something for his John Deer rocket)
and I working hard on the bridges.
This is where Keith
showed us his
musical ability to
make up songs. About
Babies.
The Rockets were the best part of this
intersession. I just wish I could have found
mine. It was lost on the second day.
Here is the water balloon
activity. John can’t hold a
straight line. Adam can’t
hold the balloon in the sack
thing, Keith can’t launch
them right, Rob made
eggplant shaped balloons,
and I wonder if balloons is
spelled right.
People used the
bleachers to try and
go farther.
I don’t think I worked
because our balloons
went as far as theirs.
This morning another group decided to
bomb our position. We retaliated and had a
casualty. Rob ran and slipped in the mud.
He was covered in it. That was the funniest
thing I’ve ever seen him do.
Git-R-Done
John
John is starting the space
program to put the first Tractor
on the Moon.
My Acme rocket
with OORAH!!!
Streamer. Which
deployed in the
air after hitting
the shed.  It was
cold that day.
Commence Fire!!
Keith’s pockets are full of
water balloons. 
Catapult
I think the catapult was the most challenging
project because it took forever to realize
that we needed a stop. Also we had so many
problems with the wood splitting, and the
drills not working. But it all turned out fine
and we had one good throw.
That is Adam pulling the catapult down.
Rob is running away in fear(he thought it was
going to snap),
Keith is running out to catch the ball
I’m just standing around
and John just wants to drill something.
Our catapult killed itself. 
But we rebuilt it into a trebuchet.
Which also broke. 
The End
Summary
In this intersession we built rockets, catapults, mousetrap cars, and bridges. We made
small individual catapults and then a big group one. We named the bigger one
Juggernaut. We were able to have one good launch on it. That launch killed itself. It
snapped our stop off and destroyed our posts. The trebuchet was a little less challenging.
We were able to get it done in about the same amount of time but we did not run into
some of the problems that we did with the catapult. Such as the actual launching. Since
the Trebuchet uses a seesaw counterweight system there was no strain on the posts. But
when trying to use a rope to launch the projectile we snapped the pvc pipe. Then we
made paper airplanes. We cut outlines out and pasted them to a cardstock like folder
then cut them out again. The trip to the Air Force Museum was great. I loved seeing all
the old and new aircraft. You know these aircraft are big but you don’t realize how big
till your standing under the wing. The mousetrap car was interesting. We used a string
attached to a mousetrap to accelerate a car(wood block with wheels). IT didn’t work real
well because the cd wheels had no traction. I didn’t really like the bridge building. It
took forever and drawing out the lines was so boring. This was a great choice of
intersession and if I could take it again I would.