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A 2020 graduate from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Stone Gray (beard and black shirt) launches watermelons on Monday, May 24, 2021 at Lookout Valley Middle\/High School with a trebuchet he designed while he was a Science, Technology, Engineering  and Mathematics (STEM) education and mathematics major at the University. He is in his first year of teaching at the middle\/high school.<\/p>\n

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UTC graduate designs, builds and uses trebuchet.<\/p>\n

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