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Designing and building Rocket #2

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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.

Launching/Graphing Rocket #1

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We launched our rockets on a Friday and ours went 192 feet in the air! This was our first attempt at building and launching the homemade rocket. We were really proud of that. Overall our rocket did the best. Because of our weight distributed throughout the rocket we did really well. I think that was a huge factor in our success.

We had certain jobs while launching the rocket and we all did super well at each of them We worked really well together as a team and I think that benefit us tremendously. I was a kilometer reader at one point which was pretty cool. I got to measure how high the other teams rocket went. When we were launching I pumped the air pressure to the exact point it needed to launch. I got it exactly on the mark which was weird but cool.

My group partners had different jobs than me. one was counting down when to launch and another was pressing the button to launch the rocket. I remember seeing my rocket launch and go so high, higher than all the other rockets. I was so excited when I saw that happen and I thought “That was only our first launch and build! How did that happen!”

Overall I thought our group did really well and I am very excited for our next build and launch!

Designing and Building Rocket #1

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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!