After Mr Wayman's one-off special with "Ready, Steady, Bridge" we are ready to begin our next project. The theme of the project is *drum-roll.........* Racing Cars.
All the details will be revealed at next week's STEM club. Please can we all meet in D1 (Mr Armstrong's room) where Mr White will be leading the session.
Please make sure that you write up your rocket project on the link on the right hand side of this page. Also make sure you vote for the 3 STEM club logos that you prefer. This vote finishes on Thursday at 3pm!
Saturday 31 January 2009
Friday 23 January 2009
Thankyou for giving us your logo ideas! we will be scanning them in and posting them on the blog this weekend (hopefully!) and mr white will be setting up a poll early next week where you can all vote for the design you would like to become your STEM club logo. please remember that you cannot vote for your own entry (we will know!) thankyou! amy, sarah and sarah
Thursday 15 January 2009
3......2......1......BLAST OFF!!!!!
Today (15th Jan) we set of our gunpowder rockets off. We have been working them for about 6 weeks or so but that's just a guess.
Some of the rockets were great like "Yoshi" which was the only which released it's parachute but others like "BAM" went spiralling away and the fins broke off.
There was a launch point and two points on the field 48metres away and two on the basketball pitches 53 metres away and we took the meaurments from there. Working out the average measurment was a bit harder though. We worked out the tangent for each measurement for each measurement for angle then times it by either 48 or 53. After that we added the height (from the eyes) of the person to the answer. We did that to all of the angles then added all 4 together and divided the answer by 4. That was the average height of the rocket then.
We're going off the topic rockets now and we are moving on to something else. We don't know what yet but we know a few options.
Anyway we all had a laugh even though it was FREEZING outside, especially when have to stand and just measure rockets!!!
Some of the rockets were great like "Yoshi" which was the only which released it's parachute but others like "BAM" went spiralling away and the fins broke off.
There was a launch point and two points on the field 48metres away and two on the basketball pitches 53 metres away and we took the meaurments from there. Working out the average measurment was a bit harder though. We worked out the tangent for each measurement for each measurement for angle then times it by either 48 or 53. After that we added the height (from the eyes) of the person to the answer. We did that to all of the angles then added all 4 together and divided the answer by 4. That was the average height of the rocket then.
We're going off the topic rockets now and we are moving on to something else. We don't know what yet but we know a few options.
Anyway we all had a laugh even though it was FREEZING outside, especially when have to stand and just measure rockets!!!
Monday 12 January 2009
Rocket Launch - Arrangements
Weather permitting we will be launching our rockets on Thursday afternoon - beginning at 2:45pm. To enable this to happen you need to ask to be excused from P5 at 2:25pm. Please see JWE or RWN for a note excusing you from your lesson. Come directly to S21 to collect your clinometer and rocket. To help you do your calculations of height you will need to bring a calculator to school on Thursday. T-3 and counting.....
Friday 9 January 2009
Finishing Rockets!
This week we carried on building our rockets and added any finishing touches that we wanted. Anybody who hadn't painted their rockets had to do so and wait for it to dry until they could do anything else. We had to put in some special wadding so that when we set the rockets off the parachute wouldn't melt (like Sir's did :D) We also filled in an evaluation of what we thought of the Stem club so far and what we thought could improve it. Hopefully, next week we will be able to set off our rockets and see which one goes the highest!
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