I'm a bit behind on my space-news blogging, but here's a cool activity that occurred earlier in the year in Hamilton:
Hillcrest High blasts competition at Waikato engineering day, waikato.ac.nz (1 July 2011)
A huge crowd gathered at the University of Waikato this week to witness the launching of homemade water bottle rockets made by local secondary school students.
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School teams were challenged to design and build a water bottle rocket that would travel the greatest distance horizontally, using only a 1.5 litre bottle, plastic and cardboard, a limit of 80psi of pressure, and some imagination.
I personally would like to see a nationwide Water Rocket Competition in New Zealand, after seeing how engaged students were at the APRSAF-17 competition last year. This is one of KiwiSpace' incubator projects, so hopefully we'll be able to organise one next year. If anyone is interested helping out, please do Contact Us