Hi readers!
We have been learning a lot about rockets and we are going to start designing bottle rockets soon. But to test our engineering skills we had to make a parachute.
We were given lots of materials (paper, fabric, string, tape, etc) to make our parachute with. The parachute would have to safely bring to nuts to the ground. The slowest time would win.
Our first design didn't go so well, it hit the ground quickly and didn't catch enough air, it also broke whilst being stored away, this is what it looked like
So we all decided we were just going to make a new parachute with a completely new design. We made heaps of changes to the parachute, we changed the shape from a square to a circle and put paper on top of the fabric so less air could escape. We also used thinner string, it still held the nuts but made the parachute just a little bit lighter. That's the changes we made to our parachute and this is what it turned out to look like.
You can't see the string very well but just trust me when I say it's there.
It took 2.3 seconds to get down the floor, meaning it did pretty well. The difference between the beginning parachute and the end parachute was very big and I think my group did pretty well considering we were on a bit of time crunch (Because we had to make a completely new one)
Until next time!
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