Hosting Organization(s): Museum of Early Trades & Crafts
Learners Impacted: 54
For the 2022 Maker’s Day and STEM Month, the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (METC) hosted a Catapult Launch Lab. Using simple physics, participants designed, built, and experimented with their catapult and launched fun projectiles across our Education Annex. Altogether we served 54 children through our live launch lab ages 3 through 13. Kids picked one of two different catapults varying in degrees of difficulty. Once the initial design was created, they experimented with alterations to improve the distance and force of their projectiles. The excitement was evident throughout the program. Parents were exceptionally impressed with their children’s critical thinking and the way METC challenged the initial catapult design to help students increase the distance or force through their experiments. Additionally, participation in this Launch Lab granted access to the Museum for the day of the event of which resulted in over 70 visitors. METC is grateful to the support of the New Jersey STEM Pathways Network and Overdeck Family Foundation for making this Launch Lab possible.