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Rocket engineering teacher helps students soar to new heights
10/21/2022 5:01:00 PM A high school rocket engineering teacher is helping his students soar to record-breaking heights
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A high school rocket engineering teacher is helping his students soar to record-breaking heights Brazoswood High School rocket engineering teacher Chris McLeod is up for Texas Teacher of the Year as he helps students break records. CLUTE, TEXAS --Brazoswood High School rocket engineering teacher Chris McLeod is one of the three finalists for Texas Secondary Teach of the Year. He teaches 10th through 12th graders how to build fully functioning rockets. For him, launch day is the best day. "The excitement of all that work culminating to a 10-second countdown, it's unlike anything else in your life," said McLeod.In June, his Rocketry III class set a record for high school hybrid rockets for their Goddard Horizon 1 rocket during a launch in White Sands, New Mexico. Their rocket flew 45,482 feet in the air, breaking the previous record of 36,100 feet. Read more:
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