FREEPORT ROCKETEERS COMPARE INLINE AND SLANTED FINS

Knowing that a football's spin makes the ball not tumble through the air, we wanted to test whether slanted fins would increase the height of our paper rockets. Although our sample is way too small and our variables many, it does appear that there is no noticeable effect. This may be do to the fact that all of the rockets launched vertically and were quite stable.

 SLANTED VS. INLINE FINS

NAME 1	HEIGHT FEET		NAME  2	HEIGHT FEET
SCOTT	100		JUSTIN	38
WILL	70		AIDEN	115
MARCOLA	52		ETHAN	65
GAGE	44		ISAAC	55
JACKSON	67		NOAH	60
AVERAGE	66.7			66.7

                                              

Aiden got his paper stomp rocket the highest at 115 feet. This may be due to the fact that he had the greatest mass and a good jump.  Everyone had fun and got a chance to apply Newton's Laws of Motion. 

MOUNT ARARAT MIDDLE SCHOOL ACHIEVES NEW HEIGHTS

The student made paper rockets with either one penny or two pennies as load in the
nose. Although there were not enough launches to come to any conclusions and too
many variable uncontrolled, it might be that the one penny load reaches higher heights.

Alex is to be congratulated on getting the greatest height in our launching of single
sheet paper rocket rocket launching in 8 years.

It was a fun experience demonstrating Newton's Laws of Motion

COMPARING ONE AND TWO PENNY LOADS

ONE’S NAME	HEIGHT		TWO’S NAME	HEIGHT
Alex	173		Kate	49
xxx	67		Sxxx	137
Maddy	52		Tanner	75
Tanya	64		Nolan	97
Nathaniel	72		Emily	55
Cam	93		Nick	83
Landon	64		Mark	29
AVERAGE	84		AVERAGE	75

WILLIAMS - CONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP

One of the activities at this summer's Williams - Cone Elementary School in Topsham, Maine was building paper rockets and launching them with a stomp launcher. Despite the the fact that the children weighed less than our usual middle school students, they tied our record for paper rockets at 119 feet.

FREEPORT LAUNCHES PAPER ROCKETS TO NEW HEIGHTS

Th rocketeers paper rockets had a wide variety of results. Some missed hitting the bottle squarely while others achieved heights of over 100 feet. One rocket went to 119 feet.

NAME HEIGHT FEET HENRY 40 ESEM 70 CANTRO 107 NICHOLE 34 WILL 42 CHASE 119 SAM 78

YARMOUTH LAUNCHES STOMP AND WATER ROCKETS

After assembling the 2L soda bottle rocket, the rocketeers launched their water rockets and paper rockets of various types. Unfortunately, the bottle rocket launcher broke so we did not get a complete set of data. At least one of the bottle and paper rockets went up over 100 feet. Our order is in for a new launcher.