Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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. 

Monday, October 12, 2015

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

Friday, July 17, 2015

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.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

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.