ISU Physics Department's Free Water Rocket Festival Returns June 24 and 25

A high-flying summertime staple is returning to Pocatello’s Tydeman Park later this month. Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, Idaho State University’s Department of Physics will host their Water Rocket Festival at Tydeman Park, N. 8th Avenue and E. Young Street.

Each day, the first 100 youths ages 16-years-old and younger will receive the materials needed to construct a water rocket. From there, ISU students will explain the physics of making a good rocket and help the newly-minted water rocket scientists build and launch their handmade projectiles. The builder whose rocket travels the furthest will win their own water rocket launcher.