October Sky Reflection

During the school year we saw the movie "October Sky." This movie is about four kids that live by the mines, and decide to make a rocket. They also get the information that if they win the local science fair they can travel to a different state and to to the finals to show everyone their creation. The four kid's names are Homer Hickam, Roy Lee, Odell, Quentin. When the four kids won the local science fair and the finals, they got many college scholar ships to help them from working in the dangerous and brutal mines. This movie is related to science because they used many chemicals to help them get the rocket to fly and they had to experiment with many different types of metals with different masses to help them get the rocket high into the sky. This movie also has to do with math because, when Homer was accused for causing the forest fire he had to use math to calculate the exact position of the forest fire and the exact position of the rocket to prove that the rocket was not the reason of the forest fire and that they can pursue their dreams to go to college. This movie had to do with character education because the boys never gave up even kept on moving forward no matter how many times their rockets failed to go high in the sky. This movie is something to learn from because no matter what people say or what people don't believe in, you should believe in your self and never give up and keep on trying no matter how many times you fail. The more you fail the more you learn.