Let me narrate this ordeal very well

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So, the late Prof. Albert Rugumayo (RIP) gave us a list of projects and told each group to select one which they preferred. Being the geniuses we were, I and my fellow members decided to go for the water rocket. Since we had done it before while at @Ntare_School, 1/14

...we had an idea. We bought the materials we needed and started building what we thought would land us at SpaceX . Step by step, we built it. I personally took part in constructing its engine (the two bottles that had to carry water). For a fortnight, each one of us ...2/14

...was devoted enough to always walk to Livingston hall and take part in its construction. Finally, the rocket was ready for testing. We performed a number of tests and the rocket would fly high and when it would reach its highest point, the cone on top would be blown ..3/14

..off by air hence, the launching of a parachute to enable soft landing of our rocket. Every time we’d test, we’d make sure we do it during hours when there were people in the Livingston hall quadrangle. Everyone would be lost in admiration. You could tell from their faces...4/14

...In all this, we didn’t know that the subsequent tests had a negative impact on some parts of the engine and this would be our first shocker . On the 13th test, the rocket refused to fly. We assembled it again and luckily enough, we were able to identify and rectify...5/14

...the problem. From then, we agreed that we should not test our rocket till the day of presentations.
Wednesday 8am was the when we’d have the legend’s lecture. The first group presented and left the stage. As the group leader, I had wanted us to be the last to present....6/14

...but the “kamiro” of my group mates couldn’t let them keep calm. They attacked the platform like they had made a major scientific discovery . Confidently, I walked to the stage and joined the lads. I even didn’t greet the class. I started off by telling them that our ...7/14

...rocket was a combination of Bernoulli’s and Newton’s laws(all the three). I gave them a few details, drew some graphs of water vs time vs height and my assistant, Julius Ninsiima would then jump in to delve deeper into the operation of the rocket...8/14

...”You see this thing here? During our subsequent tests, we found out that the time taken for it to reach its maximum height is equal to the time taken for the water to be spilled out. In simple terms, the bottles are drained within a fraction of a second!!”... 9/14

...if I myself got goosebumps upon hearing these words, you can imagine what the lecturer and students were going through. Without hesitation, the lecturer interjected and said we should go outside and demonstrate to him....10/14

...The CEDAT parking lot is where we took them. Everyone got out their phones including the professor. They were indeed witnessing history being made. Being the group leader, I took on the commentary role as my colleagues did the technical work...11/14

...I talked, talked and talked and my words got done even before the rocket could shake itself
I could hear the murmurs in the audience, “these guys are foxing us”. With fear, I started asking my guys what was going on and before I could finish, our pump burst...12/14

...I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, the lecturer couldn’t believe it and the students couldn’t believe we had just hyped our dysfunctional rocket to such an extent 13/14

The good thing, we had some recorded videos of our working rocket and we showed them to our lecturer. The guy gave us 19/20.

But our rocket is still there. In fact I want to meet the minister of science and technology and see what we can do with our thing 14/14