On Thursday March 8, 2007, the picturesque walk across campus to Hammond's Lower School was modified a bit as the softball field, otherwise known as "The Rock", was populated with numerous mechanical contraptions and bustling teams of proud engineers.

As an accompaniment to the study of projectile motion, eleventh and twelfth graders enrolled in physics and honors physics worked in groups of three to five had roughly eight weeks to plan, construct and demonstrate a working catapult.  According to Physics instructor Mary Petersen, "the end goal of the exercise was to project a coconut at least 30 yards and to have their coconut go the farthest of all."

Of this year's fifteen entries, the winning group of engineers was “Team Hood” with members Austin Hood, Wes Dasher, Lauren Smith and Ross Powers, launching a coconut well over 50 yards. The catapult utilized a lacrosse stick as the arm and tightly wound ropes for a spring mechanism.