{"id":523,"date":"2025-03-23T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2025-03-23T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:53:09","slug":"model-rockets-and-pinewood-derby-2025-03-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Model Rockets and Pinewood Derby (2025-03-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was unusually busy for a weekend.<br><br>Jeremy and I woke up around 6am to drive to the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area near Irwindale, CA. The <a href=\"http:\/\/mebowitz.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/mebowitz.com\/\">Southern California Rocket Association (SCRA)<\/a> hosted a model rocket launch day open to the public. For Christmas, Jeremy received an Estes model rocket kit with two rockets (HiJinks and Rascal). He&#8217;s been really excited about launching them for several weeks. There were a lot of attendees, including other elementary-aged kids, middle and high schoolers trying to qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketcontest.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rocketcontest.org\/\">American Rocketry Challenge (ARC)<\/a>, and older enthusiasts with powerful custom rockets. Both of Jeremy&#8217;s launches (using Estes A8-3 engines) were successful. Another youth participant sitting next to Jeremy gifted him a more powerful Estes C6-7 engine for use in his next launch, which was really nice. Unfortunately, the SCRA won&#8217;t be hosting any additional launch days at this site until August because a renaissance faire will be occupying their usual space.<br><br>After a quick lunch at Wendy&#8217;s, we hurried back to Irvine to participate in this year&#8217;s Pinewood Derby with Jeremy&#8217;s cub scout pack. Valerie ran the Derby for the past 2 years for the pack, but this year handed off the baton to Committee Chair Robert. Jeremy&#8217;s car was fast, but the competition was stiff this year. Another den member had the fastest car in the entire pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was unusually busy for a weekend. Jeremy and I woke up around 6am to drive to the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area near Irwindale, CA. The Southern California Rocket Association (SCRA) hosted a model rocket launch day open to the public. For Christmas, Jeremy received an Estes model rocket kit with two rockets (HiJinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}