Annual Mousetrap Challenge

Freshman physics students are challenged to move a pingpong ball from one box on the floor to another using only the spring potential energy from a mousetrap. They had limitations to how big their contraption could be, and their pingpong ball had to land and stay in the target box in order to earn a point. Students got a point for one successful attempt out of three, a bonus point for 2 successful attempts, and in the Hall of Fame if they got at least 5 successful launches in a row!