jorpet
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OK, have to admit that I have been slower than slow in getting this posted.
I decided last year that the first thing we would do this year as a Bear den was a rocket build and launch. After looking at and building several different rockets I decided on the Triskelion as the rocket to build. I ordered the rockets from Jim back in August and had them all ready to go when we started up in September.
The build on these took three week nights over about a month and a half due to other meeting agendas that had to take precedence. My older son came each build meeting and helped out which was HUGE, since the parents of some of the kids where, well, um, useless when it came to even gluing things.
It was a lot of fun, but with all the work my son and I had to help with we didn't get any build pictures. Just some with the rockets done/ mostly done.
Then we planned a launch at a small park that the whole pack was doing a hike at. That way a lot of the other boys got to see the rockets fly as well. During the launch a photographer from our small neighborhood newspaper stopped by and liked the launch so much that we actually made it into the paper that week.
First picture is after the boys had painted their rockets.
Second Pic is at the launch
I decided last year that the first thing we would do this year as a Bear den was a rocket build and launch. After looking at and building several different rockets I decided on the Triskelion as the rocket to build. I ordered the rockets from Jim back in August and had them all ready to go when we started up in September.
The build on these took three week nights over about a month and a half due to other meeting agendas that had to take precedence. My older son came each build meeting and helped out which was HUGE, since the parents of some of the kids where, well, um, useless when it came to even gluing things.
It was a lot of fun, but with all the work my son and I had to help with we didn't get any build pictures. Just some with the rockets done/ mostly done.
Then we planned a launch at a small park that the whole pack was doing a hike at. That way a lot of the other boys got to see the rockets fly as well. During the launch a photographer from our small neighborhood newspaper stopped by and liked the launch so much that we actually made it into the paper that week.
First picture is after the boys had painted their rockets.
Second Pic is at the launch