Up, horozontal, down

Reina, Isabel and I had to make our bean go up one meter, horizontal one meter and down a meter. To do this we first took a meter stick and set it up vertically. we then attached a clip to the top of the meter stick and looped a piece of string through the loop. At one end of the string our bean was attached and at the other was a bag full of beans. We then attached a paper dixie cup at the top right hand side of the meter stick with the mouth of the cup facing horizontal. We set another bean inside the cup. Then we taped a shoebox in back of the meter sick and attached a wooden ruler. To make our machine work, you drop the bag of beans onto the wooden ruler. This results in first of all causing the 1st bean to go up a meter and secondly it causes the wooden ruler to fly up hitting the dixie cup and launching the 2nd bean into the air only to fly horizontally one meter and then down another meter,