Neighborhood Youth Association

Neighborhood Youth Association
Building a better future one kid at a time

Monday, April 4, 2011

Week 7-Launch Day!

After two weeks of consecutive building the students were excited to finally launch their rockets.  We were planning on using the hand-held altimeters to measure the height of the rocket, however they went too high and we did not give ourselves enough distance.  We started at 50 m from the pad and ended up 150 m from the pad, but, even at that distance, the rockets went too high.  In addition, the fact that we couldn't launch straight up in into the air was a problem for height measurements. 

In any case, all of the rockets launched perfectly.  We equipped some with B engines and some with C engines giving the students a taste of how different each of the engines are.  They were all very excited to see the intense speed and power these little engines provided, and were thrilled that all of the parachutes worked and their rockets were recovered.  Now it is on to bigger and more powerful rockets!

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