Pisay Cebu students win national water rocket tilt

MANILA, Philippines - Two senior students from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) - Central Visayas beat 17 other schools in the National Water-boosted Rocket Competition held at Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm in Angat, Bulacan.

PSHS students Mary Dorothy Dinampo and Weand Ybanez landed their rocket 2.4 meters away from the target placed 70 meters away from them, winning P10,000 and earning them the chance to represent the Phillippines in the 20th  Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum Water Rocket Competition in November.

Catmon High School placed second as their rocket landed 9.7 meters while Rizal National Science High School got third with their rocket landing 11.7 meters.

Science Education Institute (SEI) Officer-in-Charge Elizabeth Fontanilla said the competition is an annual activity conducted to inspire students to be space scientists in the future.

“It is a good feeling to make water rockets out of soda bottles and other light materials and then seeing them fly afar. We believe that this ‘good feeling’ can ultimately serve as a motivation for our kids to make bigger things through science and technology in the future,” Fontanilla said. 

The activity was part of the 2013 World Space Weekcelebrations organized by the Department of Science and Technology through SEI under its Philippine Space Science Education Program.