The document describes a boy building a catapult to launch tennis balls for his dogs during fetch. He built it with his grandfather to make fetch more fun and tire out his dogs faster. Some challenges included getting the wood angles wrong and having the catapult launch the ball only 120 feet. In the end, he learned about tools and building while enjoying more fetch time with his dogs and siblings.
A seminar for canine caregivers and trainers, hosted by Five Star Dog Training in Kamloops, British Columbia. Other resources related to this event: http://sylviacurrie.ca/tag/help4yourdog/
Sculpture and Drawing for GAD Portfoilio PresentationDustin Tabor
I called it 5 weeks in 5 minutes because that's what it is. This was some of my work that I done for 5 weeks during my sculpture class and I think it turned out great! A very enjoyable experience! Let me know what you think!
A seminar for canine caregivers and trainers, hosted by Five Star Dog Training in Kamloops, British Columbia. Other resources related to this event: http://sylviacurrie.ca/tag/help4yourdog/
Sculpture and Drawing for GAD Portfoilio PresentationDustin Tabor
I called it 5 weeks in 5 minutes because that's what it is. This was some of my work that I done for 5 weeks during my sculpture class and I think it turned out great! A very enjoyable experience! Let me know what you think!
2. What Makes playing fetch with your
dog much more fun?
• A catapult will be the solution for this
problem because everybody loves
launching a tennis ball.
• Or some other kind of machine that will
launch it like an airsoft canon.
3. Why did I choose this project?
• I have two dogs and I atleast have to play
fetch with them twice a day.
• Somedays my arm is soar from baseball
• The dogs never get tired and so I can
make them tired this way
• My brothers and sister would want to play
fetch too.
4. what I enjoyed most
• Working with my Grandpa
• Learning how to use different tools
• Launching the tennis ball for my dogs
5. How to launch the catapult.
• Get a normal sized tennis ball
• put it in the ball in the yellow bowl
• pull back on the hand of the catapult
• make sure the dogs are not in the way
• release the hand.
• the ball should go a distance of about 120
ft.
6. problems encountered
• We got the measurements of an angle for
the 2x4 piece of wood wrong three time.
My ipad got hit by the hand of the catapult
when I was taking a video.
9. What I learned from this activity
• Launching a catapult is a lot of fun
• The dogs got tired much quicker
• Surgical tubing is very strong
• My brothas n sistas loved it too
10. Things I would do differently next
time
• make my catapult much smaller
• Add more weight to the base of the
catapult so it doesn't rise off the ground
when launched
• make it launch farther because I think it
would be more fun
11. The most difficult/challenging
aspect of my project.
• building the catapult one day at a time.
I wanted to just get it built so can start on my
reports
12. Acknowledgements
• My Grandpa for helping me build
• my brothas n sistas for testing my catapult
• my mom for buying me the trifold.
