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Over the course of the past month, we took the concept of the engineering design loop and what we learned from the catapult experiment and built our own catapults using limited supplies. We had several build days and two days of trials. The first day was a distance competition, seeing just how far we could launch marshmallows. Measuring where the marshmallow first landed, we had several groups that were able to launch over 6 meters (nearly 20 feet)! The next day, we had an accuracy competition, looking to see how close to a target they could get their marshmallow to stop. We had several students who could land their marshmallow within 6 inches of the target. Great work by all the teams. It's the perfect time of year to "drop everything and code". Not only is it National Coding Week, it is a great introduction to the concept of computer engineering. While we are not able to do any hardware engineering, students are hard at work learning the basics of computer coding. This week, they will have nearly 4 hours to finish as much of the introduction to coding course sponsored by Code.org. Class logins are as follows: Deeble ~ Visit http://code.org/join and enter BTCXTR Osten ~ Visit http://code.org/join and enter JNGQCF Cronin ~ Visit http://code.org/join and enter BSBWSS
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