This week, it was all about learning how to design a rocket and launch it into space. We may not make it to space, but we'll still make an awesome rocket. Hayes, our fearless team lead, introduced the rocket team to OpenRocket, a design software that allows us to model and simulate a rocket launch to determine maximum height and rocket stability. We broke down last years rocket and remodeled it in OpenRocket to learn how the program works and design some rockets of our own!
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Still no announcement on this year's competition, but that doesn't mean we can't get our hands on a rocket. This week, we took out last year's rocket and disassembled it. Members were able to see some of the internal components and assembly processes that it takes to build a rocket. Once everyone was familiar with the rocket, we broke up into 3 teams: Electronics, Payload, and Body. Stay tuned for the announcement of the competition so we can get to work building rockets!
It's great to have everyone back and excited to blow some stuff up! Even though the competition hasn't been announced yet, we've still been hard at work prepping for the year. We got to know each other a little bit better, introduce members to past competitions, and talk about the sub-teams for the year. This is going to be a great year!
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Team LeadsNicole Biskner & Nathen Schollaert Archives
May 2019
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