Focus Question: How can engineers use performance evidence to defend a design?
Every task advances the same Rocket Launch Pad Design Challenge.
You complete final testing and a two-page Engineering Design Review that uses specific project evidence—not guesses or general statements—to explain how and why the design performed as it did.
12 in × 12 in maximum footprint and 12 in maximum pad height.
Provided rocket installs, remains upright, and removes without damage.
60 seconds unsupported.
10° in four directions for 5 seconds each.
Pass the standardized instructor-controlled disturbance test.
Write your team’s maximum successful tilt angle on the Engineering Design Review form immediately after competition testing. Use the Evidence / Observation column to capture anything that helps explain the result, such as where the structure began to shift, flex, or tip. If multiple teams achieve the same maximum angle, the smaller qualifying footprint is the tie breaker.
The worksheet is your written final evidence for the Launch Pad Challenge. Complete it individually unless your instructor directs otherwise.
Use this form during testing and competition, then finish the analysis and reflection sections before submitting the lesson.
Define → Research → Imagine → Select → Develop → Build → Test → Improve → Communicate
The point of Unit 0 is not only the launch pad. It is learning how engineers use a process, evidence, and documentation to move from a problem to a defensible solution.
Your completed worksheet is the written competition record and design review for Lesson 0.10. Part A contains the final qualification and stability data; Parts B–E explain the engineering process, evidence, iteration, and reflection. Submit all pages with your name and period completed. Your final launch pad is inspected in class.
Two-page printable form for final qualification data, competition results, design evidence, EDP reflection, and final engineering judgment.
