LOGAN - The Logan Library and Craft Lake City DIY combined efforts with children ages 2 years to 16 years at Willow Park on ...

This year, since 23ABC Chief Meteorologist Elaina Rusk can't be in a classroom due to COVID-19, she found a way to bring her passion for science straight to the schoolkids learning at home.

First, we will make the launcher. You will need: Several lengths of half-inch PVC pipe 2 PVC tee connectors 2 PVC elbow connectors 2 PVC slip caps An empty 2-liter bottle Duct tape The rocket ...

As part of an annual tradition, freshman students in Professor Romulo Ochoa's orientation to physics class created personalized two-liter bottles rockets. They were shooting for the most "hang time." ...

The other end is connected to an empty 2-liter bottle. This is your basic propulsion source, and simply stomping on the bottle will force enough air through the pipe to launch the rocket.

Each team had to build a rocket using a 2-liter or less carbonated beverage bottle and they had 10 minutes to launch it. Last year, more than 12,000 people participated in the event.

Moments later, the family’s rocket made from a two-liter soda bottle and foam fins shot into the sky and veered wildly to the right before crashing into the ground.

Even though the elementary students used 2-liter pop bottles, this also was rocket science. Stansbury ran through the physics of the simple bottle rockets: “An air compressor pushes compressed air.

As the rocket — a 2-liter soda bottle adorned with the cardboard wings and fins — came crashing down, the 13-year-old took off running after it. “That was the best one so far,” someone ...