Matchstick rockets and the STEM day @ the SMM

rocket day launch 1

WOW! Look at the flame on that thing! This is an image of one of
our first matchstick rockets trying to launch off. It wasn't really
sucessful, but it was very awesome to see. I tried to make my own
rocket to launch. it was very fun making them, but mine never went
off the launch post. It was also very cold that day and we had lots of
visitors coming to see us launch our rockets! Eventhough TRAVIS was
the only one who could actually launch his rocket more than a feet away
from the launch post, we all tried or best to make a successful rocket.

Today (9/30/07) we had a whole hour to walk around the museum and
look at the STEM career fair.They had tons of representitives there to tell us
about engineering, sciences, 3M, different colleges, and doctors. They even gave
us a $7.00 gift certificate to the chomp eatery! We had lots of free things. I collected
a Pillsbury doughboy, a Sudoku keychain thingy, I have lots of pen and pencils, I have a
new pen that has flag-notes attached inside the pen, I have a mini bag of popcorn, and plenty
more items that I collected from the STEM career day thingy.

Patricia M – September 30, 2006 – 1:40pm