Now that this project is complete, how do you feel about it? What things stand out?
I feet like I could have done a little more for this project for I didn’t always feel that I( was doing as much I could have, but all in all it was fun to do and since it was also my first rocket. Hit two birds with one stone. My favorite part was probably when I was building the final part especially since was doing the design shakes and made the cage for the quail egg. And once it was all done i couldn’t wait for it to fly.
What, if any, science or technological things did you learn from doing this project? What is necessary to understand to build a successful rocket?
I learned how rockets fly and that balance is very important for them to fly. I also learned how a rocket motor works and how different elements can affect it like if there's a core of if the fuel was fast of slow burning. If I didn’t now how different things affected a rocket motor, then I would have no idea why my teams built motor didn’t work. We made it with a ¾ core and sugar nitrate fuel. the sugar fuel was two slow and the core was to small and didn’t change much for the burn. Ours ended up as the longest burn with is what we wanted. The catch was it had no power to get it off the ground, but this just shows that I knew what was wrong without having a long explanation.
How did you collaborate with others in this project? (Who did you work with? What did you contribute? How did you operate as a group or unit?)
The teammates I was working with was not my complete choice, but that was mostly because I have a hard time finding teammates. Working with them was a little hard because I was sometimes quite and not always heard. Which can make me miss important things. I tried to assert myself, but I was still was still too quiet and slipped up a little. It got a better as one of my teammates left to go to a different class. I still had that problem but I did my own do some solo work that was productive to the project or to my grade.
If you could do this project again, would you do anything differently? What advice would you give to the next class of racketeers?
If I could do this again I would want to do more for my rocket and team. I'd also like to make my own rocket motor as in I would have liked to use my own design in the final rocket (thought actually making it to would be really fun). And I would make the cage again but better and not mess up the string. And for advice for the next class to do rockets. Make sure to work on it as best you can. A OK amount of people didn’t put there all in it and there rocket took the fall.
Based on your responses above, what advice or suggestions would you give to Andrew to help him design a better rocket project?
Have more motor tubes to they can try and make their own motors and improve upon them. also maybe they should lazier cut the fins instead of cutting them out. less room for error and can save space.
I feet like I could have done a little more for this project for I didn’t always feel that I( was doing as much I could have, but all in all it was fun to do and since it was also my first rocket. Hit two birds with one stone. My favorite part was probably when I was building the final part especially since was doing the design shakes and made the cage for the quail egg. And once it was all done i couldn’t wait for it to fly.
What, if any, science or technological things did you learn from doing this project? What is necessary to understand to build a successful rocket?
I learned how rockets fly and that balance is very important for them to fly. I also learned how a rocket motor works and how different elements can affect it like if there's a core of if the fuel was fast of slow burning. If I didn’t now how different things affected a rocket motor, then I would have no idea why my teams built motor didn’t work. We made it with a ¾ core and sugar nitrate fuel. the sugar fuel was two slow and the core was to small and didn’t change much for the burn. Ours ended up as the longest burn with is what we wanted. The catch was it had no power to get it off the ground, but this just shows that I knew what was wrong without having a long explanation.
How did you collaborate with others in this project? (Who did you work with? What did you contribute? How did you operate as a group or unit?)
The teammates I was working with was not my complete choice, but that was mostly because I have a hard time finding teammates. Working with them was a little hard because I was sometimes quite and not always heard. Which can make me miss important things. I tried to assert myself, but I was still was still too quiet and slipped up a little. It got a better as one of my teammates left to go to a different class. I still had that problem but I did my own do some solo work that was productive to the project or to my grade.
If you could do this project again, would you do anything differently? What advice would you give to the next class of racketeers?
If I could do this again I would want to do more for my rocket and team. I'd also like to make my own rocket motor as in I would have liked to use my own design in the final rocket (thought actually making it to would be really fun). And I would make the cage again but better and not mess up the string. And for advice for the next class to do rockets. Make sure to work on it as best you can. A OK amount of people didn’t put there all in it and there rocket took the fall.
Based on your responses above, what advice or suggestions would you give to Andrew to help him design a better rocket project?
Have more motor tubes to they can try and make their own motors and improve upon them. also maybe they should lazier cut the fins instead of cutting them out. less room for error and can save space.