AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Education and fun is all in a days work for kids attending a summer camp at Amarillo College.
Friday the 16 kids attending the camp launched their final project. It's a machinery camp at the east campus that has been going on all week. They've been busy creating tool boxes, hammers, and for the final project, bottle rockets.
With the appropriate safety equipment on, instructors and parents there to help the kids, used a launch pad filled the bottle rockets with water and launched them into the air. With a parachute attached for a safe landing.
"One of the things they've built was using 2 liter bottles and the machinery instructor has built a launching pad, where we'll fill them a 3rd of water and then put in 100lbs. of air and have a little contest to see who's will go the highest," said Dr. Kim Hays, Department Chair of Manufacturing Technician.
Dr. Hays adds that this is the first year for the machinery department to part of the college's, kid college program, and is excited to continue it in the future.
