Model Rocketry - Advanced
Overview
Ready to take model rocketry to the next level? This honor moves beyond simply building a rocket: you’ll become a designer, engineer, launcher, and flight scientist!
This is the “level-up” version of Model Rocketry. Instead of just following instructions, you’ll get to design, experiment, test, troubleshoot, launch, measure, and improve—using real principles of physics and engineering. It’s perfect for anyone who likes rockets, science, building things, or seeing how high they can fly! 🚀🔥
Requirements
1. Have the Model Rocketry honor.
2. From a kit, build, successfully launch, and recover a boost glider.
3. Design, build (not from a kit), finish, and paint a single-stage rocket. Check for stability, and successfully launch and recover this rocket.
4. Do one of the following:
- a. From a kit build, finish, and paint a two-stage rocket. Successfully launch and recover this rocket.
- b. From a kit, build, finish, and paint a three-engine clustered single-stage rocket. Successfully launch and recover this rocket.
5. Design an electrical launch system. When this has been approved by your instructor, build this system and use it to launch rockets at least five times.
6. Describe and demonstrate single station altitude tracking. With the aid of a helper, track the same rocket three times using three different sizes of engines and compare altitudes with an altitude finder.
7. Compare the velocity and altitude of two different weights of rockets using the same size engine.
Answer key & resources
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
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