Engineering Soda Straw Rocketry

The Challenge

• The fins and rectangle on the template will form the body tube of your rocket
• Carefully cut out the rectangle and wrap the rectangle around a pencil, lengthwise.
• Tape the rectangle so it forms the tube.
• Carefully cut two the two fin units and place the small rectangle piece between the two fins to match with the end of your body tube.

Continuing

• Tape the tube about 1/4" above the end of the tube. Be careful not to tape anything directly to the pencil.
• Do the same thing for the other fin unit but tape it on the other side of the pencil so you have a matching set
• Bend each fin unit to form right angles.
• At the sharpened end of your pencil, twist the top of the body tube into a nose cone
• Replace the pencil with a straw.
• Blow into the straw to launch your rocket.

Distance that it flies