Student catapults to scholarship

Patrick McLaughlin, a senior at Salem High School in Salem, N.H., had already been accepted into the civil engineering program at Merrimack College in North Andover when he learned of a unique scholarship opportunity. So on a recent Saturday, the 17-year-old joined four other students in seeing who could launch an egg from their homemade, medieval-style catapults closest to a ... (Full article: 684 words)

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