In rocketry we are currently building our third rocket. My team has almost finished and we are so excited for the third launch because our parents are coming.

First we designed the rocket, it took longer than expected because we were very slow and didn’t agree much. What we did was copy and pasted our second rocket and then we changed the color and nose cone because we decided the thing we were changing was the nose cone. 

Another team had a pointy tall nose cone and that’s what we wanted so we did what they did. They stacked two nose cones on top of each other. One small and one that actually fit the rocket. Then I taped them separately with black tape, to make them bigger because when I taped them together it was bigger because they already had tape on them. So I taped them with black tape nice and tight. For our rocket body it was the same, skinny and thin. We decided to make it blue with black tape. For our fins we did the same thing as the second rocket’s fins. In our group someone wanted to cut the body in half because in another class they had tiny rockets and they went 218 feet. But we used popsicle sticks and he was also outvoted. 

We didn’t work so well when deciding to change our rocket. Like when someone wanted to cut it in half so it was a tiny rocket, it became a big mess. Then our teacher came around and told him we couldn’t change it again, but he just kept picking popsicle sticks and kept pulling them out until he picked his name. It got annoying at times but in the end it was good and we always have a way to figure it out.

We also launched our rocket #3 at first my class thought we were just building it but then our teacher decided to let us launch it. Our rocket went 153 feet high! The third launch was our highest launch! We were super surprised with the results and didn’t think it would go that high. We tied with team Chicos. Their average was the highest! We were all super happy! 

At the launch, I think it was the best moment from the start of the unit because we knew it would be ending soon and we all challenged each other really well. It helped me because I never knew if we would fight or not and we did, but we always resolved it.

Designing our rocket was hard. We couldn’t always agree on what our parts of the rocket would  look like. Half our group wanted long fins and the other half didn’t want that. But someone in the group was always messing around and stuff so it was very hard to work. 

We had a pointy nose cone so that the air hits off the top and helps it glide better. We had a skinny body because it will shoot up instead of slowing down with the wider tube. We also had 3 fins because it will help with stability and the fins will help the fins stay in the direction the rocket is launched in.

Building our first rocket also took a lot of time and we didn’t know exactly how to build it like what materials and stuff. We didn’t know what color it’d be and what tape we’d use for the rocket and what color the fins would be and stuff. We had to always vote while building our rocket. We didn’t very much get long. But in the end our rocket turned out great and the launch was successful!