october Sky Project
Project Overview
We built rockets for the October Sky Project. There were three different launches. We built air and water rockets for the three of them. Phase 1 everyone had to build paper rockets. Phase 2 and 3 were choices between bottle or air rockets. When we made our first rockets we used tape, paper and glue and we put an egg in and it had to survive. Then the second and third time we made either paper or bottle rockets and we could a lot of items to make the rockets, but for the second time the egg didn't have to survive. The third time around we had a budget which was 1.5 million dollars and we had to use some of it to pay for the supplies we used and still put the egg in. During this project we learned about Newton's laws and how to calculate the maximum altitude achieved by the rocket.
Reflection
What I learned was how to build a better rocket from my failure. I learned what size the wings/nose cone need to be how to protect the egg better than pieces of paper and how much water to put in. This helped me build a really good and functional rocket.
What I liked about this project is well.. we built rockets and it was awesome. This was one of the best projects I did in a while. I hope I do a project like this in some of the different grades. I didn't like the egg aspect. I didn't like this aspect because it is really hard to protect an egg falling from around 30 feet or higher. I also didn't like that we had to build a paper rocket for the first phase because if we could have built an air rocket for all 3 times we would have he better success because we would have learned lots about how to make a good bottle rocket. What I think I did well was team work. I think I did good on this because whenever my group mates asked me to do something I wouldn't argue. I could do better in saying my ideas for my rocket. I could do better because if I would have given my ideas for this rocket we could have built a good rocket or a rocket that my group could say it went super high or was super protective of the egg.