{"id":1548,"date":"2014-05-14T10:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:19:09","slug":"rockets-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2014\/05\/14\/rockets-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1549\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Rockets-Away.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1549\" alt=\"A year 4 pupil prepares to launch their rocket\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Rockets-Away-300x257.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Rockets-Away-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Rockets-Away-1024x878.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A year 4 pupil prepares to launch their rocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">In their capacity as STEM Ambassadors, Lichfield and District Soroptimists provide \u201chand on\u201d service to assist at a variety of STEM events in local schools throughout the Midlands region.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">One such event was a \u201cRockets Away\u201d Day at Bursley Academy on Wednesday 7<sup>th<\/sup> 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. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">Club member Bev Billings was kept on her toes taking stopwatch timings and recording data for the pupils to analyse.\u00a0 The sun shone and everyone enjoyed the day, especially club member Bev!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In their capacity as STEM Ambassadors, Lichfield and District Soroptimists provide \u201chand on\u201d service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rockets Away! | News | Blog | Events | SI Lichfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Lichfield and District : Blog &amp; News : Rockets Away! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Lichfield and District . 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