The Purpose Ping Pong Invention Challenge is to challenge our thinking and see how we can come up with a mechanism completely from scratch without help from Mr. Dickie.

The Goal of the Challenge was to build a Ping Pong Launcher that launches the ball into a bucket 10 feet away.

We wanted our Model to be as adjustable as possible because we did not know how far the ball would go so we made latches to adjust how much tension is applied to the rubber band. The lower we latched the rubber band, the farther the ball would go. We also had a variable stopper system that would dictate the angle of where the ball launches.

Despite have such great ideas, we were not able to score consistently in the matches because the rubber bands would sometimes cause the ball to launch crooked. In the beginning we wanted to build a guide path along the side the model but we ran out of time.