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A rocket goes skywards during the session.
Photo by QUENTIN ROUX, Staff
Teacher Shane Totten readies a bottle rocket for takeoff on a PVC launch contraption. Propulsion is provided by the release of compressed air in a soda bottle.
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Bart Simpson, seemingly an unwilling passenger in one of the more imaginative rockets, awaits take-off.
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Not likely to pass muster at NASA, this bottle rocket nevertheless has a distinctive personality all of its own.
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Rockets exhibit their diverse designs and color schemes before being launched.
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Spectators, aka Marco Island Charter Middle School 6th Grade students, watch the proceedings from a safe distance.
Under the tutelage of Marco Island Charter Middle School science teacher Dr. Vincent Albanese — helped by fellow teacher and hands-on compressed air technician Shane Totten — students designed and launched bottle rockets as an end-of-year project. Some were clearly made by amateur backyard aeronautical engineer dads, others fashioned 100 percent by students. But in the end, the aim was achieved — understanding science can be a heap of fun.
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