District 54 students have a blast launching rockets
Students from Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 launched 450 rockets throughout the day Tuesday as the culmination of a yearlong learning project.
The launches at Schaumburg’s Olympic Park involved students from all 27 of the district’s schools who began exploring aerospace engineering through the NASA Rockets curriculum in September.
Activities emphasized hands-on science, prediction, data collection and interpretation, teamwork and problem-solving. Students also learned background information about the history of rockets before they began work on launching their own.
The district partnered with Siemens Corporation for the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) initiative.
Hena Koeberl, 10, a fourth grader at Thomas Dooley Elementary School in Schaumburg, hooks up her rocket called the Space Launcher at Olympic Park in Schaumburg Tuesday. Her rocket was one of 450 rockets that took to the sky as part of Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54s rocket launch day.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
One of the 450 rockets that took to the sky Tuesday as part of Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54s rocket launch day at Olympic Park in Schaumburg.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Rocketman Kevin Keehn has the fun job of being able to press the launch button on all 450 student-built rockets that blasted off Tuesday from Olympic Park in Schaumburg as part of Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54s rocket launch day.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyh erald.com
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