Rocketry Rush Part 2: FF

Building Gone Bonkers

Written by Noy.C

After the Pack-man disaster, they had to rush to build, but it was bonkers. They had a week to build, while other groups had 1.5.

The Fantastic Flyers had trouble with building the rocket and were late to start anyways. The group spent most of the time in class 5C and not in the wing like when they were designing. The misunderstanding about aerodynamics  by one team member was the first thing that had to be solved. When designing, one group member didn’t understand what another meant by aerodynamics, which meant that even when it was explained, they needed to take out of building time to explain again. After that, they had some trouble rolling the rocket body. Their first attempt was too small, but their second fit perfect on the small tube. However, it was made with dodgy paper and they tried with stronger paper. This idea failed, so they resorted to the old rocket design that fit. Then they spent a good chunk of time on the presentation, which was unnecessary. Even after all this time wasting, they didn’t learn their lesson. They spent a ton of time on the nose cone. “I felt baaaaaaad.,” said group member Kevin “It was really stressful.”.

Eventually, they got to the fin part. However, they used the wrong piece of cardboard and had to start over. Then they fixed the fins, but were late to stick them on.

“ This is how I felt one: stressed, two: mad, three: sad,” said teammate Maya on the late stress “I thought rocketry was going to be fun and I wanted to make the second time funner”.

All that was left was to launch…

Rocketry Rush Part 1: FF

Packman Peril

Written by Noy.C

From the day they started designing the rocket in early September, Fantastic Fliers were in trouble, Pac Man style.

In the 2-4 weeks of designing, a countless number of Packmen were created.

The source, an anonymous team member, was not contributing to the design much, and instead put his time into making distraction that appeared on everyone’s screen. The nuisances were so distracting and infuriating that the 5C in Heathcote elementary group were running behind when it came to building, as they had to delete them. At one point in late September, Fantastic Fliers returned to class to warn the teacher, Ms.Cooper about this. The cause was they caught him making 2 in the middle of writing class, which meant he was on the document when he wasn’t supposed to be.

“My reaction was ARRRGGG!” team member Kevin said when he heard about the fact that they had made packmen in writing lesson. After a long period of time, the packmen were gone. But it was too late to stop the stress, as they were done designing. There was a minor problem when it came to the blueprint itself but that was easy to resolve.

Unfortunately, the stress didn’t end there…