"Okay, now that we are almost perfect in all of the distances let's try getting the ping pong ball into the basket ball hoop!" said my Science Olympiad partner: Maddie. We were working vigorously on our device for launching ping pong balls at targets. As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I was in the event Air Trajectory. We got third place, but our goal is now first place. So we thought that we could prove our mastery of the distances by making it into the basketball hoop. So both of us dragged… well actually gingerly carried the device onto the three-point line in the court and prepped it.
"Okay so I think it will be about seven meters." Maddie said.
"I agree, let's bring it forward though just to be sure."
"Let's do this!"
So we adjusted the angle, set the pipe, raised the weight, checked the air flow, inserted the pin. "3… 2… 1… Go!" I yelled. And off the ping pong ball went. An arrow slicing through the sky. Everything was going in slow motion as the little white ball WHOOSHED through the net. "Hurray! Yes! Whoo-hu!" I cried with joy. I galloped and sashayed and leaped extravagantly. It was an odd sense of pure joy. Luckily, we caught this on video.
"Okay so I think it will be about seven meters." Maddie said.
"I agree, let's bring it forward though just to be sure."
"Let's do this!"
So we adjusted the angle, set the pipe, raised the weight, checked the air flow, inserted the pin. "3… 2… 1… Go!" I yelled. And off the ping pong ball went. An arrow slicing through the sky. Everything was going in slow motion as the little white ball WHOOSHED through the net. "Hurray! Yes! Whoo-hu!" I cried with joy. I galloped and sashayed and leaped extravagantly. It was an odd sense of pure joy. Luckily, we caught this on video.
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