I participated in this Catapult Challenge event because I want to challenge myself to see whether I can apply the theoretical knowledge learnt from university to actual daily life.
In this event, the organizer provided us with a few ice cream stick, a plastic spoon and some rubber bands. Then they asked us to use the materials to create a small catapult which will be used to throw the ping pong ball into the boxes that consisted of different marks and thus we can get the mark. Each group had 3 chances to throw the ping pong ball. In the process, I had to give my full scope to creativity in order to figure out the design of functioning catapult using the limited materials. At the end, my teammate and I were still able to build it. Although we able to get only 1 ping pong ball into the box, I still felt very satisfied to be able to build a catapult from material provided.