One of Troop 31's most distinctive and celebrated projects is the troop's trebuchet — a working medieval siege engine built by scouts as an engineering and woodworking project.
A trebuchet is a type of catapult that uses a counterweight to hurl projectiles. The Troop 31 trebuchet was designed and constructed by scouts under the guidance of adult leaders with engineering expertise, providing a hands-on lesson in physics, mechanics, and craftsmanship.
The trebuchet has been used at fall festival events to spectacularly launch pumpkins at annual trebuchet competitions. Building it required scouts to learn carpentry, physics concepts (torque, leverage, projectile motion), project planning, and teamwork.
Scouts applied physics, carpentry, and teamwork to build a working trebuchet — a living lesson in medieval siege engineering.
