Every year, cub scout troops distribute little kits for making wooden "Pinewood Derby" cars and "Rain Gutter Regatta" boats. This year was our first experience with a cub scout race I'd never even heard of before: The Space Derby.
Daddy and Daniel basically had to design and build a simple rocket with a rubber band-powered propeller.
Daniel's younger sister asked to take an Anna's-eye-view picture of the project . . .
. . . and a picture of herself, apparently.
Daniel is showing me his rocket-decorating handiwork (i.e. he chose which numbers to stick on the bottom) while he awaits his turn to race. Joy apparently decided that shoes were optional for this pack meeting.
It's race time! The boys wound up their propellers about fifty times, then suspended them from long strings and let the rockets go.
Daniel's rocket made it all the way to Venus! NASA would be proud. :)
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