Hi, my name is Samuel Gens. I was born and raised in Andover, Massachusetts. As an undergraduate at the Ohio State University I plan to studying Aerospace Engineering. I partake in the Varsity Pistol team where I shoot precision guns and try to get the best score I can possibly get while improving my skills.
I am the person making the H of Ohio, these are some of my new teammates who will shoot with me for the next 4 years here.
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This video is of a homemade rocket made of a PVC pipe and cap. The fuel is made of a mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate, the oxidizer. This video was taken in a small town located in Missouri before college started when I was visiting a friend Anthony and his friend Phil who lit the fuse. The rocket was created to more or less have fun during the day, but it also interested me as my pre-major is aerospace engineering at Ohio State. While creating these rockets I learned that many things go into the effect of how a rocket works. For example, you can’t just create a very large rocket as the weight of the fuel and other materials will be too heavy and will not produce enough lift to have it take off. I got to learn how basic solid rocket “motors” work which was really cool as they were used on the retired space shuttles in order to bring equipment and supply’s to the international space station. This is important to me as it signifies when I am experimenting as a “rocket scientist” and it is the experience that propels me to study aerospace engineering.