===== Minutes for the Independent Study =====


7/5/12 - Google hangout to discuss software options, competition registration

7/6/12 - Google Hangout with Rob. Discussed different competitions, smaller scale models, software options. 

New Jersey Pumpkin Sling - http://www.pumpkinsling.com/index.html

7/10/12 - Midweek meeting to discuss other money and competition options. 

7/13/12 - Meeting with Rob. Forms for registration, preliminary designs and calculations by next week. 

7/27/12- Urban Siege, http://teamurbansiege.com/, is one of the groups that entered the Punpkin Chunkin competition with a floating axle king arthur trebuchet and has a nice description of their trigger mechanism. 

http://i.imgur.com/o7gyA.jpg  - preliminary design of trigger tower.