Make a Model Rocket

Ready for Liftoff? Build and Launch Your Own Model Rocket!

In addition to building their rockets, students will spend significant time learning about aerodynamics, propulsion, and rocket design through fun, hands-on activities and guided experiments. With expert support, they’ll even run simulated launches to understand how real rockets take flight!

After crafting and customizing their rockets, participants will explore the safest ways and best locations to launch them. Each young rocketeer will go home with a fully assembled rocket and all the materials needed for a real launch.

And don’t worry--we’ve got lunch covered to keep their engines running!

NOTE: Students will leave the workshop with a fully-built, working model rocket and with the stand and engines necessary to launch it. Launches take place once a month in Ocala and Lakeland at authorized launch sites. Rockets cannot legally be launched in Celebration.

Guardians are required to complete our waiver before the first club meeting--if they haven't already done so for a different SPARKGROUNDS event. All events are led by professionally trained and insured staff who have passed a Level 2 background check. Students can withdraw from a class series at any time simply by emailing us and prorated refunds are always provided automatically.

This SPARKGROUNDS event is available for direct pay through Florida's Step Up FES-EO and PEP scholarships. Find events in the Marketplace by selecting 'find providers' and searching for 'SPARKGROUNDS.'