Photo Gallery: The annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest
Ethiopia Team One prepares to toss a wiffle ball with their contraption, which won the smallest and lightest entry competition, during their turn at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
A sequence of six images taken in-camera on one frame, show how a ball approaches the target and bounces off the lip of the bucket at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
An official judge watches a ball bounce on the lip of the target before falling out at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
The Nobel Middle School team tosses a wiffle ball and just misses the target at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Overall winners from Diamond Bar High School are freshmen Megan Ho, left, and Joshua Chou who tossed eight balls with their “Gravity Defying” contraption at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Lakeside High School, from Lake Elsinore, tries to put the ball into a target at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Ethiopia Team Two Adonay Berhane, a junior, lines up the shot during their turn at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Richard Goldstein won second place in the JPL division at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
The South East High School team won second place overall by putting seven balls in the target at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
An official ball collector watches as two balls tossed at the same time bounce off the target bucket and fall onto the concrete at the annual JPL Invention Challenge Wiffle Ball Loft Contest, at JPL in La Cañada Flintridge on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)