Jack's 1st Cub Scout event - Water Rocket launch.
This afternoon, pack 980 met at Homefield Park to make and launch water rockets made from 2 liter soda bottles and a mix and match of other items that could be cut and fashioned into nose cones and fins, etc...
The event started at 3 PM, and the kids started right off making and coloring their home made contraptions. Soda bottles for the main rocket with paper towel roll cores to look like booster rockets. Adorned with fins and wings made of cardboard, styrofoam trays, and scrap card paper; all held together with silver duck tape, and decorated in sharpie marker.
Jack did a really good job of putting his idea into action for his rocket. It looked more like a heavy bomber, or an attack space craft than a rocket you would launch off of a NASA launch pad, but he put it all together very well; and with a little bit of adult assistance, it was pretty sturdy and even a little bit aerodynamic.
It only took about 30 minutes for all of the kids to manufacture some sort of contraption to test in water pressured flight, and they spent the next 30 minutes launching them 5 at a time. By the time that each rocket had been launched at least three or four times, most of them looked nothing like the construction that had launched off of the pad the very first time, but they still flew in random directions as the kids pulled the yellow cords that held the restraining pins. Everyone got a little bit wet from the spewing water, and the boys had a blast (literally). Delaney even got a turn to launch a rocket.
The event started at 3 PM, and the kids started right off making and coloring their home made contraptions. Soda bottles for the main rocket with paper towel roll cores to look like booster rockets. Adorned with fins and wings made of cardboard, styrofoam trays, and scrap card paper; all held together with silver duck tape, and decorated in sharpie marker.
Jack did a really good job of putting his idea into action for his rocket. It looked more like a heavy bomber, or an attack space craft than a rocket you would launch off of a NASA launch pad, but he put it all together very well; and with a little bit of adult assistance, it was pretty sturdy and even a little bit aerodynamic.
It only took about 30 minutes for all of the kids to manufacture some sort of contraption to test in water pressured flight, and they spent the next 30 minutes launching them 5 at a time. By the time that each rocket had been launched at least three or four times, most of them looked nothing like the construction that had launched off of the pad the very first time, but they still flew in random directions as the kids pulled the yellow cords that held the restraining pins. Everyone got a little bit wet from the spewing water, and the boys had a blast (literally). Delaney even got a turn to launch a rocket.