My favorite MARS robot in the team's 3 year history is our
2006 "Aim High" competitor
"Ball-istic". The design is deceptively simple, incredibly robust and a crowd pleaser. Its versatile abilities have allowed the team to pursue a multitude of community outreach activities:
We've used it to catapult ballons with preschoolers, throw "snowballs" (white poofballs) in Jupiter's Holiday parade, provide the public a chance to shot balls at targets at Fun Fairs, teach scouts about catapults (a Weblos Engineering requirement), played countless rounds of dodgeball... and it's just plain
fun to watch!
