Launching our team’s rocket was the most exciting part about the rocket unit. We all had fun launching the rocket and overall just the whole process. It was the first time we all launched a rocket together and it gave us experience so we would know what to do during the second launch. We cooperated better than we ever have before.

What stands out about our team’s rocket launch compared to the other teams launch was that the rocket didn’t go as high. I could see that our rocket just wasn’t as high as the other team’s rockets. My team job in the group was to place and launch the rocket. For me placing the rocket wasn’t a big deal but launching the rocket was. At the beginning I thought I might do something wrong and ruin the launch. But, luckily everything went smoothly. When I was a clinometer reader I felt that I would mess up like I thought at the launching. But apparently everything went fine. My answer was in the area of everybody else’s answer.

Our rocket went 112 feet in the air lower, than most of the teams, but we were proud of ourselves since it was the first launch. Our team decided that we should change the number and size of the fins because everything else was okay for us except the fins. After the launch one of our fins came off because it wasn’t secured/glued properly on to the rocket. But since it didn’t come off during our launch we were fine because the launch has already happened. But we thought that we need to be a bit more careful so one of our fins does not fall off during the launch. When our team started graphing we were a bit confused because we thought we had to do a certain step which we later found was not correct.

Surprisingly, our team managed to cooperate well during the launch, probably because we were not deciding or making anything. Our team was very good when it came to collaborating for the graphing part. Our team helped each other when we didn’t know what to do. It was good teamship which was what our team did not have a lot of.

launch 1 pictures