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Personal Narrative: Building A Trebuchet

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I define myself as someone who is hands-on, a team player, and determined. A physics project last year where as a team we had to design and build a trebuchet shows these personal traits. The goal was to build a trebuchet that could get two balls in a basket from 20 feet away. For three weeks my teammates and I worked on our project. There were many setbacks, from building a trebuchet out of specification to building a trebuchet that did not launch the payload at all. As we rebuilt we had to modify our existing design. We even had trouble with the project the night before its due date, we had to rebuild parts that broke. We had fixes and we were able to make it have better accuracy. Our trebuchet passed the test. We got a perfect score on it …show more content…

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