We have been doing a rocketry unit for the past few weeks. We have done inspiration boards, designs, found our materials and put together our rocket. The people in my group are Audrey, Harry and Marcello. We have been working very hard on our rocket design. We made our fins the other day. Everything went great until we needed to decide the best way to design them. Audrey and I both had different ideas and my whole group had to work together, consider our options and decide what fins to use.
Rocketry is a lot of fun, but it can be very challenging for your group to agree on things. You don’t want even one person, to be upset. That makes it hard because there are four people in my group and there are so many GREAT ideas. It can be hard to choose the best idea! My group and I don’t always get along, but we always figure something out. (Rocketry takes a LOT of teamwork.)
My group (or it could just be me) is really proud of our inspiration board. We worked for a week to find pictures of rockets, fins, diagrams, etc. We arranged them and glued them onto a big poster board. We then all worked together to explain WHY we picked each picture. We presented it to the class and my whole group got to talk about our board. That was one of our biggest accomplishments.
Today we put our whole rocket together. We worked really well together and we accomplished a lot. We sanded our rocket, put duct tape on it, finished the fins, hot glued our rocket together and then we went on Tinkercad where we made a 3D printed nosecone. Like I said before, rocketry takes a lot of teamwork.
My group has had some bumps along the road, but we just keep on going. For rocketry you need perseverance because your ideas will not always work. Rocketry had been great, but I can bet it will just keep on getting better!!!