Our rocket was Firey Dragon in our group there was me (Alex), George , Shane and Ross (who has

quit STEM club).

Even if we didn't get our rocket the highest (although we couldn't see it because of the clouds) it definitely went the furthest seeing as it landed on the rugby pitches. I think that it went about 85 metres.

Making the rockets took a while to do, about 5 or 6 weeks, but the finished product was definitely worth it. We decided to paint our rocket red, yellow and orange to go with the name Firey Dragon

One other thing that happened was that when our rocket landed the nose of the rocket got lodged into the ground because the secondary charge that was meant to set the parachute off ended up making our rocket hurtle back to Earth!

XXDidumsXX

We chose our design to be small to make the rocket lighter but we had the feeling that if it was short it wouldn't go up in a straight line so to solve this we added 4 fins. But unfortunately that didn't help because of the speed it was going at, the fins broke off and it wobbled and resulted in only going the average of 27.465 metres high. We had designed a smaller parachute as well as we thought it would be easier for it 2 be fired out of the top but there was only 1 parachute out of all of our groups that worked. We still had fun, even though we didn't win, but its all part of it!











Our rocket XXDidumsXX
being launched!

BAM!!!

Our rocket results are as follows...

>>>1. 23.91 metres (the best!!)
>>>2. 22.97 metres (not as good!!)
>>>3. 22.81 metres (down down down down!!)
>>>4. 16.72 metres (i know it was rubbish but thats just tight scoring!!)

I would put some pictures and videos up but I have to confess, I don't know how to because I was new to blogger when I joined STEM!!!

Ours was probably the one that would win the most frestyle points but oh well, we had a good laugh even if we were ice statues at the time!

Abigail Jane Lee x

Best of the Beths, the winning rocket.
To our delight out rocket won, and soared right over Delacy towards Ms Gillespies room. The Rocket went over 100metres (we think). Although the parachute did not release due to the fact that it was stuffed into our rocket as the tube was thin so the parachute could not simply fall out. At first we could not get our rocket to go and had to wait for a bigger fuse, (the bigger the better!) When our rocket did eventually get going we watched it jet off into the sky, I am not entirely certain as to where the rocket is now, I think it was badly damaged when landing, but the experience of making the rockets was thoroughly enjoyed by me and Beth Roberts. Hopefully a video has been attached below of the take off, which Charlotte so kindly recorded and bluetoothed to me.

This is the golden eagle rocket team, it was a failure but we enjoyed every minuit of it!!!

it was really fun shame we didn't win. But it was the beatifulest rocket though!!! Our total hight was 18.77525587 to be exact! Prety rubish in't it but it was well funny

JJ007 John & Joe

First and Foremost our rocket is (or was) called JJ007 it was the first in line to be painted and it had four fins however on of them fell off in mid-air. Our rocket did very well, managing an average height of about 80 metres. It took 5 - 6 weeks to make however thanks to John (I could not have done it without him) we managed to finish it a week earlier than most other groups. We decided it would be good to have a well streamlined rocket to help it fly through the air and decrease air resistance. As a result our rocket went up, unlike some that went sideways.

We could have made our rocket even better if we would have had access to even more resources and also if the parachute would have released.

John now has the rocket in his home, in his front room I believe.

Yoshi - Beatrice and Agnes

Firstly our rocket is called Yoshi. Our design was unique to all the other rockets because it had 6 fins not 3 or 4. We chose that because we thought it would increase the height our rocket flew. Although our rocked did reach a height of 47.76 it wasn't the highest in the group. On the other hand ours was one of the only rockets that released its parachute. We and other members of STEM club came to a conclusion that this was because since we had a wider tube to hold the parachute the parachute could get out of the tubing easier. We spray painted our rocket metallic silver and green which we both thoroughly enjoyed. We enjoyed making the rockets the most. Overall the topic was fantastic and fascinating.

We would like to say well done to all the groups that took part and thank you to all the teachers and year 10's that helped develop and make our rocket. Can't wait for the next topic!