[this is school]

Today Emma M., Amalia, and I did the Thrust Structures Lab. In the lab, we did not get to finish because we spent a lot of time doing the launch pad. We had a few different approaches of how to build it and in the end we were going to combine all of our ideas My idea was to make triangles (the strongest shape) with the popsicle sticks and then make a square and stack them up like a (very) short tower such as: triangle, square, triangle square.. etc. so it would be very strong and rather light. Mine held up through our "strength test" of throwing it either against the wall or the ground 3-4 times and seeing how well it held up. My structure never broke and was really light, which sort-of surprised me.. So, I guess I learned that things that are light and built the right way can actually be quite strudy.. which I'm sure would also have payed off in a real launch pad as well. **This relates to Newtons 3rd law because it states that there is always an equal and opposite reaction and the launch pad that we make, has to put as strong of a force up, as the sandbag's/wood's force is coming down!

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