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DocKey students demonstrate project-based learning with catapult build

West Allis-West Milwaukee School District Board of Education · October 30, 2025
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Greg Gels, principal at DocKey project-based learning high school, introduced two eleventh-grade students who presented a year-long world history project on ancient catapults and demonstrated the build they completed.

Greg Gels, principal at DocKey project-based learning high school, introduced two eleventh-grade students who presented a year-long world history project on ancient catapults and demonstrated the build they completed.

The students, Braden Bass and Aden Danforth, described their driving question — how artifacts from ancient Rome reflect the culture, technology and social values of their time — and explained how their research covered historical use, types of siege engines and the evolution of the technology into modern artillery. They…

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