Cub Scout Pack

SUMMER 2003 THIS YEAR WE WILL STUDY MODEL ROCKETRY. WE WILL BUILD AND LAUNCH MODEL ROCKETS. IN ADDITION, WE WILL LEARN THE SCIENCE OF HOW ROCKETS WORK, THE MATHEMATICS OF ROCKETRY, AND READ SOME EXCITING STORIES ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE WHO STUDIED ABOUT ROCKETS. MORE INFORMATION TO COME. SUMMER 2002 LAST YEAR FOR OUR SUMMER ACADEMIC PROGRAM, WE COMPLETED THE SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS BY STUDYING COMPUTERS. WE LEARNED HOW TO COUNT AND ADD WITH BINARY NUMBERS. WE USED THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO MEASURE VOLTAGES OF BATTERIES AND CALCULATE THE AVERAGE VOLTAGE OF A GROUP OF BATTERIES. WE VISITED THE MARIA COLLEGE COMPUTER LABORATORY TO LEARN HOW TO USE MICROSOFT WORD AND MICROSOFT EXCEL. WE TOOK APART AND REASSEMBLED A COMPUTER TO LEARN THE ABOUT THE COMPONENTS INSIDE A COMPUTER. WE EXAMINED A HARD DRIVE, A FLOPPY DISK, A VIDEO CARD, AN AUDIO CARD, THE MOTHERBOARD AND THE CPU.