July 18, 2008
90 Turn Rocket Scientists
IPOH: For a few magical hours, over 90 primary school pupils and their teachers had the chance to play “rocket scientist” yesterday, with guidance from an aerospace engineer from a private university. It was the second day of the New Straits Times-Newspaper-in-Education Young Inventor’s Workshop in Perak, and all they were provided with were empty plastic water bottles, plastic boards, some plasticine, cellophane tape and water. Nevertheless, the water bottles soon became a fuselage, the