Thomas J. Bennett

The "Aim High with Rocketry" project involves sixth-grade astronomy students at NorthWood Middle School designing, assembling, testing and launching rockets. Bennett's project provides students with hands-on learning activities that teach the inspection, disassembling and reassembling of mechanical devices, including technology essential to reaching outer space. Students will use models to illustrate processes that happen too slowly, too quickly, too small a scale to observe directly or are potentially dangerous. They will also explore the differences and similarities in sizes, compositions and surface features of planets in the solar system as well as objects orbiting them. Students are encouraged to work on various aspects of the project at home with parents. Bennet is a resident of Goshen.