Nellai school students launch water rockets

 

The 24 varieties of rockets created by the students were launched in the competition, according to district science officer K Navaram Kumar who added that this competition is the first of its kind organized by the district science center to motivate young students, ‘to hitch their wagons to the stars and planets.’

 

Attempting to show their creativity, student participants in the competition created their own rockets and launch pads using plastic water bottles plastic pipes, tubes and air pumps. The fuel they used for their rocket models was nothing but water and air. 

 

‘We made it applying Newton’s third law of motion that every action has its equal and opposite reaction,’ explained M S J Kuralamudhathan, a ninth standard student representing St Antony’s Public School, Palayamkottai.Kuralamudhan has two more classmates, S Vimal and S Evan in his team. The rocket model that he launched went up to 54 feet.

 

T Ganesh Kumar, representing St Xavier’s Matriculation higher secondary school said that though they do not have rocket principles in their curriculum in the ninth standard textbooks, he was inspired to make the rocket model because of the successful launch of Mangalyan into the orbit of Mars by India in its maiden attempt.