Have You Ever Launched A Rocket?

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been launching rockets for our Wonder Project. If you don’t know what the Wonder Project is, it is an engineering project for schools in New Zealand where you learn how a rocket works, and then later on you will get to launch your own plastic rockets. First you need to design your rockets fins and where they will go on your rocket, you also needed to list what materials you will be using. My groups fins were made  out of cardboard and we used duct tape and hot glue to stick them to the bottle. When it was time to launch, we filled our bottle with 250mls of water and pumped our pump up to 50 psi. Our rocket didn’t launch on the first try, so we refilled it then tried again. This time it flew but it didn’t fly to far. After landing all our fins had broken off our rocket. The Wonder Project is a very fun activity to do. I can’t wait for our next launch. Have you ever launched a plastic bottle rocket?