The Final Frontier

The "space science group" consists of 10 high school students from classes X to XII:

"Space, the unconquerable dimension. What lies out there has left many people amazed. The simple idea of another universe is mind boggling. We, the new generation are trying to do, what many men at NASA did years ago. Limited by our resources, we thought of making a simple, but effective “water rocket”. The basic principles that it runs on are already present everywhere around us. The Water Rocket, that we planned to make was, not your everyday backyard experiment. What we planned to do was to control the rocket’s fight path, its trajectory and its stages. A rocket, which is designed to go to outer space, has 3-4 stages; these stages break off one by one after they run out of fuel, we planned to do the same. We are students from all over India, who have teamed up with our mentor Mr. Jatin Anand sir and vowed to build a rocket that would do what we all desired- reach the final frontier.

We started off small; on paper we drew basic guidelines to build us a rocket. Every one of us contributed to the designing of the rocket. Ideas poured in from every direction, and soon our creation was complete, well on paper at least. We were guided carefully, by our mentor, and soon we had a finalized design and parts ready at hand. The two groups that we were divided into were evenly balanced, so we had no problem in communication. As we started building our rocket we felt how different it is to do one thing in paper, and in practical. I really hope when we are done, we have a working 2-stage rocket. After all that testing and drawing, we also had a few laughs. Mathematics was also implemented everywhere. We learnt how to handle the data given to us, find the trajectory and have fun."

Abhishek Oswal, Anant Singh, Chandramani Verma, Deeksha Agrawal, Jeevan Singh Nayal, Kunal Maini, Pranav Obhrai, Raj Anmol Singh Garg, Sheena Arora, Vardaan Choudhari.