BrainStorm GIANT Trebuchet STEM Kit

BrainStorm GIANT Trebuchet STEM Kit The BrainStorm GIANT Trebuchet STEM Kit immerses students in the science and engineering behind one of history’s most powerful mechanical systems. Through hands-on building, testing, and optimization, students explore how gravity, force, energy transfer, and mechanical advantage work together to launch projectiles with precision and power. Students construct and operate a large-scale trebuchet that uses gravitational potential energy stored in a counterweight to generate motion. As the counterweight falls, energy transfers through the arm, converting potential energy into kinetic energy and launching a projectile along a predictable trajectory. This visible, dramatic motion makes abstract physics concepts tangible and memorable. The kit invites students to think like engineers as they test how changes in counterweight mass, arm length, release angle, and projectile mass affect distance, accuracy, and efficiency. Through repeated trials, learners coll