East Elementary Rocket Podcast - 2/6/26

Viking Rockets: We Pressed the Button! A Gifted & Talented Rocketry ReflectionCALLA: Hi everyone! I’m Calla, and today… we finally launched our Viking rockets!CORVIN: And I’m Corvin, and by launched, she means they went WHOOSH into the sky and did not explode the school.CALLA: Which is always a good goal.CORVIN: For weeks—and I mean every single Friday—we learned about rockets. Rocket parts, rocket engines, rocket noses…CALLA: And Earth’s atmosphere! Like the troposphere, where we live, and the stratosphere, where weather balloons hang out like, “What’s up?”CORVIN: We also learned about the design process, which is a fancy way of saying: build it, fix it, rebuild it, and don’t glue your fingers together.CALLA: Launch day finally arrived, and everyone carefully slid their rocket onto the guide pole.CORVIN: Carefully. Like… EXTREMELY carefully.CALLA: Because if you break it on launch day, your heart breaks a little too.CORVIN:  Mr. Malloy helped connect the ignition wires to the engines at the bottom of our rockets.CALLA: Those engines were small…CORVIN: …but mighty. Like angry, thumb-sized dragons.CALLA: Once everyone was behind the 15-foot audience boundary—CORVIN:  Safety first! We like our eyebrows!CALLA: —we did a countdown.CALLA & CORVIN (together): 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BLAST OFF!CORVIN: Each student got to press the ignition button, and the rockets shot up over East Elementary!CALLA: Other classrooms watched from behind their windows like, “Is that a bird? Is that a plane?” CORVIN: Nope. It’s a Viking rocket made by third graders.CALLA: At the very top of the rocket’s flight, the nose cone popped off—CORVIN: —and out came the bright orange streamer!CALLA: The streamer helped us track where our rockets landed.CORVIN: And by “track,” she means “run after it like explorers on a mission.”CALLA: We traveled to recover our rockets and held them proudly like real space engineers.CORVIN: It was a fun, exciting, and educational day full of science, space, and countdowns.CALLA: And the best part? CORVIN: They actually worked!CALLA & CORVIN (together): Thanks for listening—and keep looking up! 🚀https://malloyclass.weebly.com/peterson-squid-study.html