WOOSTER Students in Ann McNeil's science class at Triway Junior High were as serious as NASA engineers on the morning of a launch.
In the gray drizzle of Wednesday morning, they stood at the perimeter of the soccer field with their eyes fixed on their timers for their own launch as classmates propelled pop bottle rockets skyward one by one.
The timers compared findings with each other in determining how long each bottle rocket stayed in the air against a goal of at least two seconds.
Each student had a role to play; timing the flight was just one of them. Also on the agenda were pumping up the bottle with a bicycle pump, pulling the string to launch it and measuring the altitude with an altimeter.