The dream of every transportation engineer has been to make a small private car fly. While it would be a science project with many interesting possibilities, it is not one which can be undertaken in high school. Still we are going to attempt an experiment in aerodynamics by making small car models fly.

What we intend to do is construct catapults using three different types of elastic materials and then use them to launch our toy cars into flight. Essentially we will turn the potential energy of the elastic material into kinetic energy transferred to the cars launched by the catapult.

The object of the science project is to find which of the three different elastic materials has the most potential energy. This will be measured by how high the cars reach when launched by the different materials. The catapults can be used to launch five different car toys of different weights and sizes.

The data that you collect will then be compared to see which of the three given elastic materials managed to send the most cars soaring highest. That is the material which has the most potential energy out of the ones used in the science project. Make sure that all the data is tabled properly and displayed well.