Funded Nov 8, 2023I want to thank you for all your help in getting these resources for students! I am disappointed to say we were not able to complete the project as intended. Although students were able to design and build rockets, and we were able to perform mathematical calculations about their trajectories - launch day never happened!
Through a combination of scheduling conflicts and medical emergencies, we were never able to get everyone together to launch the rockets in a suitable location (our school doesn't have access to a field). However, we were able to draw connections between engineering and mathematics, and students had a lot of fun building the rockets or describing their designs.
We did get to use the air-launch rockets in classrooms to show how they model parabolas - and more than one student left imagining a career in space! I cannot say thank you enough for all of these opportunities.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Oeckel