You will compete and be assessed on:

• How high your rocket goes.

• The effectiveness of guidance and recovery systems of your rocket.

• Overall creativity, aesthetic and thoughtful design of the final product.

What is Motion and how to we create and control it?

How is the science of rockets the science of your every day world?

All students will be responsible for understanding the science behind rockets. This knowledge will be assessed in several ways including:

25 % Rocket Design, Creation and Performance

25 % Two Written Assessments

25 % Final Presentation and Manual

25 % Group Participation and Time Management

Extra Credit – Talking about the project with your family

The Rocket

Rocket Manual

Rocket Scientists’ Presentation

You will work in teams of 4 teams, which will be decided on by me. You will be able to specify people who you feel like you would be productive with and people you feel like you will not be productive with. You will send those preferences to me by tonight in an email with the subject heading: “Team Preferences”. You may specify one 2 people that you feel you work especially well with and two people you do not feel like you work well with. I will not go out of my way to pair you up with friends unless you include information about why you have worked well in the past together.

The project-building phase is broken into two blocks of two weeks – four weeks of building in total. Each two-week block will require your team to complete two of the four components. At the beginning of the two-week block you will decide who is going to be working on each component and you will commit to that component in writing.