Resources

Supplies

• You can buy stopwatches at sporting goods stores. Digital ones are by far the least expensive. Or, ask if any of the kids or mentors in the clubhouse have stopwatches on their digital watches

Books

• Rocket Science: 50 Flying, Floating, Flipping, Spinning Gadgets Kids Create Themselves by Jim Wiese. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1995. ISBN 0471113573
  
  

• How to Build Your Own Model Hot-Air Balloons by Richard Marmor
  Arbour Technologies, 1995. Available at bookzone.com
  http://bookzone.com/bookzone/10000232.html
  "Build models capable of flying miles and to heights approaching 1000 feet for a total cost little more than a dollar. " - bookzone.com
  

Web sites

• Hot Air Ballooning
  http://www.launch.net/
  
  
• How Hot Air Balloons Work
  http://www.howstuffworks.com/hot-air-balloon.htm
  
  

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