Watch a homemade medieval trebuchet fling a ball of fire into the night sky. The counterweight drops, the arm swings, and a flaming projectile arcs across the darkness like a slow-motion firework.

With guidance from Marous Brothers Construction engineers, Eastlake Middle School students recently participated in a trebuchet challenge. The competition that the seventh- and eighth-graders ...

This is not the Army captain’s first time building a trebuchet. As Webelos Troop 177 Scoutmaster in Egg Harbor Township in 2007, Battschinger and the boys built a 9,000-pound trebuchet which they ...

Groups of engineering students from four Quad-City high schools tested their modern takes on medieval weaponry Monday at a trebuchet competition at Bettendorf High School. A total of 17 teams from ...