Eighth-grade students gather on the football practice field before the annual Bottle Rocket Challenge, a hands-on engineering project in Rich Olson’s Exploring Technology class. Photo by Larry Stokke
Students watch as a bottle rocket launches into the air during the annual Bottle Rocket Challenge. Teams spent weeks researching, designing and building their rockets before the competition. Photo by Larry Stokke
An eighth-grade student leaps into the air as a bottle rocket blasts off during the challenge. Creativity, teamwork and engineering design are all part of the project’s evaluation process. Photo by Larry Stokke
JH students put engineering skills to the test
LANGDON - A very fitting story to go along with our front page feature this week. At the end of the school year, the football practice field became a launch pad for creativity and engineering on the last day of school, as students in Rich Olson’s eighth-grade Exploring Technology classes took part in the annual Bottle Rocket Challenge. The project, whi…