WRHS sophs rocket to first
Mike D’Aquila, Jon Davis, Ben Correira, Nick D’Aquila, and Arthur Hammond worked all year to build a launching device and a water rocket for the competition, meeting every Thursday after school to engineer, design and test different water rocket designs using soda bottles.
They followed the scientific method as they tested their rockets, altering variables such as water pressure, water quantity, launch angle, mass of the rocket and fin design. The boys collected data and made alterations until the final rocket landed consistently within two meters of the target. The competition is based on how close a rocket lands near a target 30 meters away from the launch site.