Rocket project aims to launch students’ interest in science
The Himalayan Hibiscus team of Zoe Winter and Leilani Lennarz from West Valley School, get their rocket ready for launch at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally outside Glacier High School on Thursday, May 25 (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Alison Godfrey and Steve Alejandro at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally on Thursday, May 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
The Hummingbees from Helena Flats School, from left, Naomi Saito, Aubrey Nelson, Kiernan Rourke Kelly and Talia Korchman launch their water-powered rocket at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally outside Glacier High School on Thursday, May 25 (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Alison Godfrey describes the flight of the rockets with Glacier High School physics teacher Austin Robbins and other judges before the start of the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally on Thursday, May 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Eighth-grade students from Helena Flats School ready their rockets for launch at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally outside Glacier High School on Thursday, May 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Caitlin Converse, of the Fancy Flying Flamingos team from Cayuse Prairie School, launches her team's water-powered rocket at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally outside Glacier High School on Thursday, May 25. On the team with Converse was Gracie Mae Kilmer and Mikayla King. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Team Shrek from Evergreen Junior High, from left, Aubrey Reed, Alivia Jarman and Ella Goodwin launch their water-powered rocket at the Flathead Valley Rocket Rally outside Glacier High School on Thursday, May 25 (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Hundreds of middle school students gathered near Glacier High School to watch an array of colorful water-bottle rockets fly into the air.
The first team to go – naming themselves the Fancy Flying Flamingos — set their bottle on the pressurized launch pad...
Support Local News
You have read all of your free articles this month. Select a plan below to start your subscription today.
Already a subscriber? Login
Daily Inter Lake - everything
Print delivery, e-edition and unlimited website access
- $26.24 per month
Daily Inter Lake - unlimited website access
- $9.95 per month