PHILIP W. SUGG MIDDLE SCHOOL LAUNCHES WATER ROCKETS

This Lisbon Falls middle school built water bottles and launched them. It was a very windy day and some of the bottles had too much water in them. There they did not reach any great heights. The stomp paper rocket reached 100 feet because it had less surface area to catch the wind. The small Estes rocket went out of sight and was blown to an undetermined location and never found.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Johnathan	31	60
Zack	28	54
Alex	40	84
Jacob	20	36
Kadran	25	47
Austin	20	36
Geoffery	30	57
Brian	28	53
Jacob	2	11
John	50	119
Stomp	45	100

YARMOUTH ROCKET CLUB LAUNCHES SUPER-PAPER ROCKETS

READY TO STOMP

We used NASA's site as a guide to build long super paper rockets, but ran into some construction problems resulting in our rockets reaching about 2/3 the height of regular paper rockets. Our results ar tabled below.

NAME	FIRST	SECOND	THIRD*
1. BEN/SAM G.	B 60 ft	S  51 ft	Si 40 ft
2. ETHAN/SILAS	E 36 ft	S 53	Si 52 ft
3. CAL/ZACH	C 40 ft	Z 36 ft	Si 40 ft
4. BEN W.	BW 93 ft*	BW 16 ft	Si 46ft
Test**	SHORT 67 ft	LONG 49 ft

*Launched by student who got greatest height (Ben W.)        

FREEPORT HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL LAUNCHES AIR BOTTLE ROCKETS

After putting together their bottle rockets, the rocketeers launched their bottles at 50 psi. Sam's bottle got to 63' followed by Willet's at 51'. Then they launched the paper stomp rockets which surprised them because they all went much higher than the air bottle rockets.

BRUNSWICK MIDDLE SCHOOL LAUNCHES BOTTLE ROCKETS

 

After making simple 2L bottle rockets and adding water as a propellent, the rocketeers launched their rockets at 50 psi. The highest flight was 93' by Everett followed by Andrew at 84'.

YARMOUTH ROCKET CLUB TESTS SUPER PAPER ROCKETS

 

In order to make their own superior supper paper rockets, the club tested out four variation of the rocket: one had small fins and no weight, one had medium weight (three pennies) and small fins, one had no extra weight and large fins, and another had a heaver weight (ten pennies) and small fins. It was decided to not bother with a no fin rocket.
The club will meet next week to examine the data and design their own rockets.

 

PAPER ROCKET WITH PARACHUTE

NASA has a great lesson plan on building a high power paper rocket with a parachute at: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/295786main_Rockets_Adv_High_Power_Paper.pdf

It is a stomp rocket that is simple to build. The nice thing about it is that you can make variations to see how that will change the flight. Good worksheets are included.

RIVERTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PORTLAND, MAINE LAUNCHES THEIR PAPER ROCKETS

 

     On July 12th the Riverton Club made paper rockets for the stomp rocket launcher.
Everyone had a good time and learned about projectiles and rockets.
     Their rockets worked very well. We estimated that one rocket flew over 90 feet which is very good given the young age and light weight of the children.