For the start of our rocketry unit, my group had to make an inspiration board for our rocketry team. What the inspiration board does is it gives us ideas for our rocket. It also has all the research we did so we can go back to it for more ideas for our design. For our design. We decided to use a pointy nose cone because it will make the rocket more aerodynamic, a thick body because it can fit more air and we chose parallelogram fins because these types of fins are more skinny and our rocket will travel faster. We have 3 fins for balance and we made sure there were no air bubbles on our rocket because air can leak out from there. 

After we started building our rocket, we faced a really big problem. The nose cone. We had a perfect size, but we taped it over and over because air bubbles were on the nose cone. We had to tape the nose cone together using small pieces of tape. However, our fins were unstable, really unstable. We had to trim our rocket fins to make it stand properly. Our rocket colors are red, white and blue because those colors are the colors of the US and we want to represent our country. I really do hope our rocket is a success.

After we launched our first rocket,  our rocket reached a staggering 138 ft and slotted us in second place. However, my group totally ignored me and changed our fins that benefited us a lot. I felt really depressed and I feel that my group is ignoring me and leaving out my thoughts.  We had triangle fins and a blunt nose cone.

I am concerned with the Astros because we have recently been debating a lot about what to do so I think if this goes on the Astros will not succeed. I think we can pull our group together. As we pull our group together and start to become more of a working together kind of group, I think that our rocket will reach a majestic height. 

Compared to our other rocket which went high but not high enough, this rocket will probably be bad because it has a blunt nose cone and it had air bubbles. I felt really bad because my group left my idea out

Oh my god! Our rocket was not what I expected it to be. Our rocket height was barely even 70 feet! As I stepped onto the field, I already had a bad feeling about this and that’s what happened. However what really upset me was that my group didn’t listen to me because they thought our first rocket which had my fins was really bad and since someone made a side comment about our fins. 

My group was totally furious with me. So they literally changed my fins and did most of the work while leaving me only to do the fins of their choice. I also pointed out something that would help our rocket and my group just said that I was criticizing them and that made me really sad.

After that we had a launch just for fun and guess what? My group members let me be the countdown master when I wanted to be the launcher which they gave to someone else making me the only non-launcher on my team. I decided to be air pumper but I barely did anything at all and our rocket didn’t achieve a high launch.

Even after all this madness, I still pulled myself together and completed the dreaded launch. I decided to change the nose cone to make it pointier so that in my mind the rocket will go even higher. Yet that launch was one of my most negative moments of all time.