Vaibhav Rastogi, 8, carefully attaches the ignition switch to his rocket. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Anshul Rastogi (left) shows Lyle his rocket. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
This is what the campers started with. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Discovery Center intern Nicole Lyle and Jacob Wirtz, 10, make sure his rocket is perfectly aligned before sending it hundreds of feet into the air. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Garima Rastogi, 10, presses the ignition button for launch. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
As part of school vacation week, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center offered a couple of one-day workshops for kids looking to stay sharp in the learning department. And one just happened to be all about building small rockets and then shooting them 300 feet into the sky from the NHTI soccer fields. They constructed the rockets from a kit, painted them and also added an engine, igniter and a couple other rockety type things.
