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Published: January 29, 2007
Hurl-O-Rama winners announced
Pentucket Regional Middle School students competed recently in the third annual Hurl-O-Rama contest. The Hurl-O-Rama is a siege engine competition for which students spend weeks building catapults and trebuchets, which are medieval military engines for hurling heavy missiles. They competed to build a machine that would hurl a standard baseball a distance. The contest marks the culmination of a Middle Ages/Renaissance project. Out of a total of 25 entries, the top distances were: First: Josh O'Neil, 170 feet, trebuchet; Second: Jesse Buzzell and Tim O'Neil, 166 feet, catapult; Third: Cara Shaw and Emily Champigny, 125 feet, trebuchet; Fourth: Brendan Haddock, 100 feet, trebuchet.
Pentucket Regional Middle School students competed recently in the third annual Hurl-O-Rama contest. The Hurl-O-Rama is a siege engine competition for which students spend weeks building catapults and trebuchets, which are medieval military engines for hurling heavy missiles. They competed to build a machine that would hurl a standard baseball a distance. The contest marks the culmination of a Middle Ages/Renaissance project. Out of a total of 25 entries, the top distances were: First: Josh O'Neil, 170 feet, trebuchet; Second: Jesse Buzzell and Tim O'Neil, 166 feet, catapult; Third: Cara Shaw and Emily Champigny, 125 feet, trebuchet; Fourth: Brendan Haddock, 100 feet, trebuchet.
