So as many of you know, my son Joaquin has been working on his 2008 Science Fair Project for his school. We've spent most of the holidays toiling in our garage putting together his Water Bottle Rocket. He was to enter his project into the Science Fair on January 24, 2008. All of us have put our heart and soul into this project because we knew Joaquin really wanted to do something impressive.
So on the Wednesday before Joaquin was to present his project - there we all were, working feverishly to put the project board together. We even built a small replica of the launcher and I decided at the last minute to whip up a Mission Launch patch - like the ones for the NASA missions. At midnight we finished. It all paid off. Joaquin took 1st place in his class and will now be able to compete in the regional contest later. Great...more pressure. We are so proud of him and I've posted a picture of his presentation below. So now I can proudly say, "Well as a matter of fact - he is a Rocket Scientist." G-man |
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January
27, 2008
All
through basketball practices, games (for both Joaquin and Emmy), through
the homework and Boy Scout meetings - we put our best efforts into this
project for Joaquin. He took the lead (as Flight Director) and put his
Mission Specialists to work. We had some failures and set backs but
he would always push through those issues and come up with solutions
to tackle the problems. I even videotaped the Test Launch (there is a
link at the bottom of this page). With the help of the "extended
family" - thank you Uncle Steve and Aunt
Julie. He was able to gather an incredible amount of data from the
successful launches. Now it was time to present the data.
Liz
took some incredible pictures and she helped him put together the Science
presentation board. Joaquin did a lot of research and writing just to
present his project. He had to come up with a typed document with his
hypothesis, materials, data analysis, references and a conclusion. He
knocked me off my Mac more than once. 
