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Show A5 The Emery County Review, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 VOICES Celebrating the People and Lifestyle of the San Rafael Swell Area Recognition CEU students take part in Moab ‘Pumpkin Chuckin’ Contest’ Six teams from the College of Eastern Utah physics and engineering department traveled to Moab’s Pumpkin Chuckin’ contest Oct. 25 to unseat their local two-time champs with the students’ specially designed trebuchets. Physics and engineering instructors David Kardelis, Ph.D. and Kyle Larsen, Ph.D., gave their students an assignment to design and build a trebuchet that would launch a pumpkin accurately and far. When completed, CEU would transport the student’s trebuchets to the third annual Moab Pumpkin Chuckin’ contest. Judging included a 20 percent total for machine design, 20 percent for team presentation, 40 percent for total distance and accuracy and 20 percent for good sportsmanship. Each machine was inspected for safety before the launch. The rules and regulations specified that each machine must be powered by human and/or kinetic energy which could include springs, rubber bands, air, water, muscle, centrifugal force, brute strength, power architecture and bicycles. Explosives, open flames and external water sources were not eligible. The machines could not use vehicles as counterweights. The pumpkins each had to weigh between eight and 10 pounds. The competition was held on Moab’s old airport runway off Highway 191. The students and instructors arrived Oct. 24 to set the machines up and practice launching the pumpkins. Saturday morning was spent fine tuning each machine with one group from CEU setting a practice record of launching a pumpkin 606 feet. At noon, each group was allowed to launch pumpkins three times with distance and accuracy measured. Hundreds of spectators watched as each group tried to beat Moab’s Pumpkin Pirates, who won the 2006 and 2007 competitions. In 2008, they shot their pumpkin 253 ft, while two of CEU’s teams threw 287 and 267 ft. CEU’s favored team bent the main metal pole during its first launch and never came near its morning launching feat. Its captain, Chris Bernard, spent more than 100 hours welding the trebuchet with a unique hinge system included in the design. At the conclusion of the event, CEU teams were one point behind the local winners. “I am pleased with the CEU teams’ performance. I feel that if the students had gone in costumes, they Chris Bernard readies his trebuchet for launch during the Moab Pumpkin Chuckin’ Contest. probably would have unseated the Pirates,” Kardelis said. “The students were all able to fire pumpkins successfully. Some design failures occurred in the competition but that is how students learn what is important in the design.” The students can take what they learned in Moab and upgrade their designs for the 3rd Annual Siege the Day event in Price at the end of the semester. This year the challenge is to knock over a brick wall using pumpkins. On Dec. 5 at the old Durrant School field, the six college teams, plus six local high school teams will launch pumpkins from trebuchets. Accuracy will count much more in this competition. Kardelis is proud of his students, saying each learned a lot about physics. They gained valuable experience in the design, build and execution of each trebuchet. Lastly, he said, they all had fun with the assignment. Local FFA chapter awarded scholarship from Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company Fund (Ford Fund), the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, honored five FFA chapters for their work to develop safe driving campaigns in local communities. $2500 scholarships were granted to each Castle Country Candles “Makes Perfect Scents” Highly Scented*Hand Poured of the five winning chapters at this year’s FFA National Convention which also coincided with the second annual National Teen Driver Safety Week. This program will be implemented into The National FFA Organization. This year is the 60th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company’s sponsorship of The National FFA Organization. The Emery County FFA Chapter was one of the five winning chapters. Corinne Dalton, Emery High School teacher and FFA advisor put together a proposal for the campaign on behalf of the FFA chapter. “We have a program all lined out over the course of the next six months or so of ways to reach out to students and the community to educate them about safe driving,” said Dalton. “The first thing we’re going to do is get posters out by Halloween reminding students as they leave the school parking lot to drive carefully during their activities. Then we have guest columns planned with the local papers and public service announcements for the radio, among other things.” Ford’s nationally recognized Ford Driving Skills for Life (Ford DSFL) program was used as the curriculum for the programs FFA chapters developed. Ford DSFL was created in 2003 in partnership with the Governors’ Highway Safety Associa- tion, in an effort designed to reduce teen crashes and fatalities in America. “Through FFA, we do a lot of safety education with both the elementary and secondary grades already, particularly as it relates to bikes, four-wheelers and farm equipment,” continued Dalton. “The driver safety campaign is a natural extension of that. Additionally the scholarship will allow us to pursue some leadership opportunities for our mem- bers. 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