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Re: Engineers and Pumpkins
The World Championship Punkin' Chunkin' (based right here in Delaware) is still my favorite.

For those not in the know.... the competition has a few different types of Chunkers.
-Air Cannons
-Centrifugal
-Catapults
-Trebuchets
-Human Powered
-Torsion

Teams are going for distance.
Pumpkins that disintegrate before leaving the barrel do not count.
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A few weeks ago, some engineering students at my school were given standard trebuchets (with certain allowed modifications) and the challenge:

Hit a tractor tire at a certain distance. The "victims" were about the size of two fists.

Some pumpkins survived... the ones that weren't shot.
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This is still my very favorite.






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Re: Engineers and Pumpkins
That is unreal, Dave.

Someone must have spent days making that.
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Re: Engineers and Pumpkins
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The World Championship Punkin' Chunkin' (based right here in Delaware) is still my favorite.

For those not in the know.... the competition has a few different types of Chunkers.
-Air Cannons
-Centrifugal
-Catapults
-Trebuchets
-Human Powered
-Torsion

Teams are going for distance.
Pumpkins that disintegrate before leaving the barrel do not count.
Andrea's right - this event is amazing. The winner last year shot their pumpkin 4483.51 feet. (Probably with an air cannon)

Last year a couple of MOE students took 2nd place wiith their school machine in the youth trebuchet division, flinging their pumpkin 694.06 feet.

http://www.punkinchunkin.com/
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