Photo credit: Rob Twardock from College of Lake County
Instructors Steve Socol, Ph.D. (chemistry) and Joe Nothnagel (chemistry, physics) helped organize the second annual Suburban Chicago Intercollegiate Catapult Contest, held at the College of Lake County on May 2nd, and served as judges. The catapult contest is an annual competition for engineering students from some of the local community colleges.
This year MCC, College of Lake County, Oakton Community College, Harper College and College of DuPage competed. Students design and build their own catapults; each team may spend a maximum of $100 on materials. Teams also must adhere to size limitations in creating the catapults which are designed to shoot tennis balls. The teams compete in three events: distance, accuracy, and precision. The MCC team won the precision event placing fifth out of the 12 entered teams. Congratulations to Steve and Joe!
