In their capacity as STEM Ambassadors, Lichfield and District Soroptimists provide “hand on” service to assist at a variety of STEM events in local schools throughout the Midlands region.
One such event was a “Rockets Away” Day at Bursley Academy on Wednesday 7th May, when 46 Year 4 pupils built a standard rocket by rolling a paper tube, fitting a soft plastic nose cone and adding cardboard fins. This rocket was tested by launching with compressed air. The flight data timings were recorded and analysed to include maths concepts/statistics. They then built another rocket incorporating one change to try to improve the rockets performance before testing it again.
Club member Bev Billings was kept on her toes taking stopwatch timings and recording data for the pupils to analyse. The sun shone and everyone enjoyed the day, especially club member Bev!