Parachute

Hey guys!! So, our material finally came in and it looks very good and VERY PINK:) Over the past week when Gabby was gone, I did spill hole research (before the material came in.) Then, I cut the spill hole for the actual parachute.  I tried to do the math, but it did not work AT ALL, so I just made it the size of a quarter, so we can make it bigger if we need to.  Then, I made a test parachute that was really small.  I attached a lot of orange string to the sides of the parachute and then taped the other ends to a tennis ball.  At first, I had only four strings, but it didn't work because the sides that weren't attached to string flapped up (so it looked flat.) I ended up attaching four more strings (8 in all.)  We went to the bleachers and tested it and it worked really well!!! It worked really well and it deployed very quickly.  Since it went so well, we think that that is going to be a smaller version of the actual thing.  We will have it done by Monday or Tuesday of next week and then have a couple of days to test!  Everything is going so well with the parachute and we are all very excited!!!