{"id":20388,"date":"2025-08-01T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/?post_type=article&#038;p=20388"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:16:51","slug":"year-9-istem-bottle-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/article\/year-9-istem-bottle-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 9 iSTEM\u00a0&#8211; Bottle Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Year 9 have been working on their \u201cMission to Mars\u201d project during Term 2 and Term 3. This project involves creating a bottle rocket powered by water and compressed air. Students use CAD software to design nosecones and fins which are 3D printed and attached to the bottle. The aim of the task is to achieve the maximum height.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1KgdtI4ePVxPwRVsG9s81-xqoVQuoanXv\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click here to view 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20389\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1-727x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1-727x1024.png 727w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1-106x150.png 106w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image1.png 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Year 9 iSTEM students, Tessia, Ruby, Crystal, Angelique, Emily, Anastasia, Sienna, Henrietta and Jana,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have brought the spirit of competitiveness to the project with each group making adjustments to nosecone and fin design, as well as varying amounts of water and pressure in order to create the optimal parameters for achieving the maximum height.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students have recorded their designs and results in an engineering design folio. The folio and actual designs will contribute to the final mark for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mr Sam Fleri, STEM Coordinator<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20390\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/08\/image2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 9 have been working on their \u201cMission to Mars\u201d project during Term 2 and Term 3. This project involves creating a bottle rocket powered by water and compressed air. Students use CAD software to design nosecones and fins which are 3D printed and attached to the bottle. The aim of the task is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-20388","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/20388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}