Designing and Building Rocket #3

When we designed our third rocket we went back to our old first design because we relized that it would do the best out of all our designs. The only changes we made was making our rocket a little bit smaller and everything ingeneral. We thought this would help so it can rise up quicker and faster in the air. We think this will make our rocket set a record of height interms of our group.

The design had parts like sturdy nose cone taped in electrical tape, sturdy skinny pipe body, sturdy cardboard fins and more. We want to keep the same design as the first one  except improve it a little to set a record for our group. This will be our final launch so we want to make it count. I think the sturdy nose cone, body and fins will play a huge role in our success. Simply because it balances out the weight of our rocket.

When we started to build our rocket we tried to make it very precise. We wanted the measurments to be exact for top of the line performance. Even one foot could make a difference for us. Who knows? It might be the foot that makes the record for our group. We made our nose cone just like the first time (as that nose cone fitted our slightly smaller design) and made the body a little bit smaller and exact and we hot glued on the slightly smaller cardboard fins than last time. I always have liked building what you thought of. So I enjoyed building it.

I think that we had really good teamwork during the design and build proccess and I really enjoyed designing and building our third rocket. I think overall our group did really well and I can’t wait until our next launch!

 

Designing and building Rocket #2

When we designed our second rocket we kept pretty much everything the same except for making our measurements more precise, making our nose cone a little more sturdy and trying to make the slightest good changes to improve our rocket.

We were sort of a holiday squad because we used Halloween colors for our last rocket and for this rocket we used Christmas colors. I really like that we did that though. I thought it looked pretty cool. We tried to implement all the good ideas that we had into our design. We had a sturdy paper nose cone rapped in tape, we had a skinny pipe body, we had three fins made out of cardboard and much more.

While building this rocket we tried to be very precise and I think we built it very well. We made the rocket a little more sturdy overall including the nose cone. The nose cone plays a major part in the rocket so we really wanted to perfect that. We used paper for the nose cone rapped in tape and paper around our body. But for the fins we used cardboard. This played a major part in balancing out the rocket. All of this benefited us tremendously.

Overall I think we did really well working together and making decisions and hope we can continue that! I really enjoyed building and designing our rocket. I hope we are very successful again.

Designing and Building Rocket #1

In our rocketry group we designed and built a rocket and as our first design began we made a sketch of what we thought was necessary. Strong supportive nose cone made with paper and electrical tape, using skinny pipe for body and much more. We used 3 fins and cardboard for the fins. we thought this would balance out the rocket more. Our rocket became very balanced because of this.

After about three or four days we started to build our rocket based on our design. We made everything how we planned it. We made a paper nose cone rapped in electrical tape for support and balance. We made cardboard long and skinny sturdy fins. We used a skinny pipe to make it more arrow dynamic and balanced out. It was very exciting for me to build the rocket because I like to craft and create stuff. We all worked together at building the rocket. I think this benefited us tremendously.

I think our group did really well collaborating. We compromised and agreed on a lot of things. In my  opinion we were a really good group. This is a huge part of why we were successful. I remember thinking “How are we going to build this thing? What are we going to use? Will it be hard to build?” Then we built it and it seemed so easy.

Overall I think we worked really well together as a group and that working well together was a huge part of our success! I really enjoyed designing and building our rocket!