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Enjoy photos and video clips from the annual catapult contest!

The winds were perfect to shatter records on Steuart Field during the thirty-fifth annual St. Albans Physics Catapult Contest on May 24. Students in Physics and AP Physics were challenged to design and construct a catapult for either distance or precision. Each catapult was required to store gravitational, elastic, or kinetic energy, then deliver it to a racquetball.

Congratulations to Ryan Friberg ’17 and Ryan Hennessey ’17, who used their knowledge of pulleys to engineer an elastic-powered impact catapult that hurtled their racquetball 58 meters, which obliterated the previous record set in 2013, by 11 meters.

Upper School physics teacher Will Segal ’00 said, “Speaking in technical terms, their racquetball went super duper far.”

Enjoy the photos and the video clips!

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Located in Washington D.C.,  St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.