Compressed Air Rockets!

 Over term three hundreds of rockets took off from Pt England School and flew into the skies! 

 We used PET bottles, water, a cork and air which we compressed with a bike pump. 

 We learned quickly how powerful and wet  the water-blast was so we made a blast shield and lift-off bucket. 

We also followed strict rules to make sure our safety came first!

EPro8 Engineering challenge

How to construct a Geodesic Dome

Watch this slide show to see what steps we took to complete our geodesic 
domes. In the last slide we have a video with some very helpful advice!

Room 10 Geodesic dome head

Room 10 finished their Geodesic Dome today and found it was comfy enough to live in!

Yr 5-6 Pentagon-heads!

What do you think Room 10 will use our 3D pentagons for???

PT ENGLAND ROCKET BLASTS OFF!

RM 13 SENT THEIR FIRST

ROCKETS INTO THE SKIES

THIS WEEK!

WE ESTIMATE OUR ROCKETS TRAVELLED 30 METRES OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

OUR ROCKETS ARE FUELLED BY COMPRESSED AIR, WATER AND MUSCLE POWER!

NZ rocket blasts off into space

Electron Rocket blasts off in Mahia, NZ