Plastic pumpkins flew across the robotics computer lab as 4th period magnet students operated a 3D-printed pumpkin catapult.

The Halloween project came back for its second year while students were asked to design a functioning, spooky-themed machine that ran off pure physics.

“They’re [the projects] all completely different,” robotics teacher Laura Bellone said. “I just said, find something Halloween themed, and it has to have a chain reaction of motion. But it all has to be, you know, handmade, can’t be like electrical it has to be mechanical.”

The project was simple yet effective in teaching robotics students about mechanical motion.

“It was simple, but it still had something to show like what the project was about, to do mechanisms that you could build,” senior Brendan Alvarez said.

The Halloween Project is one of many similar projects that their class completed during the school year.

“They are fun, and interactive, and then informative,” sophomore Abubakar Babatunde said.

Babatunde was inspired by a cuckoo clock.

“It was like a box and stuff, and then it had a door, like a rack and a gear with a ghost on it, so basically like when you turn a gear and stuff a ghost kinda like came out of the door,” Babatunde said.