Make It

Last Wednesday, Make It went outside to make rockets using matchsticks. We experimented with the rockets to try to figure out which was the most effective way to launch rockets and get them to go as far as possible. I tried making it using only one matchstick, then two, then three. Unfortunately, none of them worked. Each time I would put it on the launch pad (paper clip), and it was lit, it wouldn't go anywhere. It was very disappointing. There were some successes with the rockets with others though. Travis made a couple that went out pretty far. His trick was scrapping the red sulfur off of the big matchsicks and making sure that the foil was twisted pretty tightly (to prevent the air from leaking out). As a result, the rockets flew out very far and extremely fast.
It was pretty cool experiment.