{"id":1673,"date":"2011-11-02T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-11-02T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:28:13","slug":"pueblo-takes-1st-place-at-ua-trebuchet-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/pueblo-takes-1st-place-at-ua-trebuchet-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo Takes 1st Place At UA Trebuchet Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pueblo science students took 1st<\/sup> place at the 1st<\/sup> Annual Trebuchet Competition at UA on Sunday October 30th<\/sup> sponsored by Raytheon, MESA, and the Physics Factory.\u00a0 Warriors competed and beat teams including Salpointe and adult engineers.<\/p>\n

Pueblo trebuchet fired 98 meters<\/span><\/span> hitting target \u00a0dead-on on second attempt.\u00a0 1st attempt was only 3 feet off.<\/p>\n

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Pueblo Warriors Trebuchet Winning Rig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Competition was to design, construct and fire a trebuchet (gravity-powered catapult) for distance and accuracy.\u00a0 Competition took place on the UA Mall where over ten teams competed from various schools and groups including Salpointe Catholic High and a team of professional engineers.<\/p>\n

Teams were given four shots (2 for distance and 2 for accuracy.)\u00a0 Pueblo\u2019s range was around 100 meters.\u00a0 Despite having the option of pulling target back in to have a better chance of accuracy as most teams did, Team Pueblo was so sharp that they set their target at the maximum distance they fired previously and still hit the 7 foot by 5 foot target dead center 98 meters away. This is the length of about a football field! Here’s a short video of winning shot:<\/p>\n

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A big crowd gathered at the UA Mall and the team definitely represented Pueblo well.<\/p>\n

No team was more efficient in setting up and launching within the 3 minute time limit than Pueblo.\u00a0 No team showed more spirit than Pueblo.\u00a0 No team showed the most character in helping other teams than Pueblo.\u00a0 No team deserved the win more than Pueblo.<\/p>\n

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Pueblo Warriors Trebuchet Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Student participants were:<\/p>\n

Maricela Bravo (Freshman), Cecilia\u00a0Machado (Freshman), Zelin\u00a0Pallanes (Freshman), Raul\u00a0Ballesteros (Junior), Rafael\u00a0Lopez (Junior), Aaron\u00a0Barrera (Junior), Rodger\u00a0Seratt (Junior), Bill\u00a0DeLaRosa (Senior) & Arthur\u00a0Hernandez (Senior).<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement.\u00a0 Special thanks goes to Diane and Mark Bouchard for financial, carpentry, and engineering support.<\/p>\n

[Story compiled by Jim Uomoto]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pueblo science students took 1st place at the 1st Annual Trebuchet Competition at UA on Sunday October 30th sponsored by Raytheon, MESA, and the Physics Factory.\u00a0 Warriors competed and beat teams including Salpointe and adult engineers. Pueblo trebuchet fired 98 meters hitting target \u00a0dead-on on second attempt.\u00a0 1st attempt was only 3 feet off. Competition … Continue reading Pueblo Takes 1st Place At UA Trebuchet Competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,195,1,190,33,40,151],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-qZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}