Connor at the Cub Scout Space Derby

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Each Scout received a block of balsa wood to make into a space ship. The space ships driven by a rubber band powered propeller down a wire track. With the same number of winds of the propeller, each ship was run down the track and the distance of multiple races was measured.

Connor spent many hours carving his rocket using a potato peeler and sand paper. He made grooves in the rocket and glued the fins in place. Last, he painted the ship and put on stickers. He took third at the Tiger Scout level and had a lot of fun winding and sending his rocket down the track. He names his rocket the red hornet. The Red Hornet is the rocket hanging on the wire in the middle of the photo.