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Rocket Workshop


Youth / Youth Enrichment -
Winter.Spring 2026

Course Description

Participants will enjoy a three-part rocket adventure featuring space-themed games, hands-on learning, and live launches. After exploring rocket basics—fins, nose cones, and aerodynamics—participants will build and launch their own rockets with guidance from four Johnston 8th grade students who were American Rocketry Challenge Finalists. All materials are provided.

Logistics

  • In order to ensure that each youth participant is able to complete all of the components of this workshop in the allotted timeframe, each youth participant must have an adult attend with them.
  • One adult may accompany more than one youth participant.
  • Youth + Adult pairs should select the $35 registration fee.
  • Youth Only should select the $25 registration fee.
  • ALL participants will be asked to identify the adult they are attending with during the registration process. 
  • All rocket materials are provided.
  • In the “launching” block, the builders will launch the rocket they created with an air compressed launcher. Rocketeers will launch their rocket three times with an opportunity to make adjustments between launches.

Instructors

Janell Pittman and American Rocketry Challenge Finalists. Watch these 8th graders in action!

https://who13.com/video/scholastic-spotlight-iowa-...

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