Most teachers might consider rocketry and hip-hop dance as subjects too dissimilar to handle. Not so Nancy Hoover, a physics teacher and program coordinator from Lloyd C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Va. For her, watching some kids calculate an apogee and others bust a move is all in a school day's work. Hoover uses hands-on rocketry projects as learning tools in the classroom. She also sponsors several Team America Rocketry Challenge teams, which design and build models intended to meet specific performance criteria. In 2012, for instance, the contest calls for student rockets to hit an altitude of 800 feet and return a cargo of two intact raw eggs to the ground, with flight duration of 43 to 47 seconds. "It's just like NASA. You have limited time and limited supplies, and you have to launch it over and over," says Hoover.
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机译：大多数老师可能将火箭和嘻哈舞蹈视为与科目太相似而无法处理的科目。并非如此。南希·胡佛（Nancy Hoover）是弗吉尼亚州切斯特菲尔德市劳埃德·伯德高中（Lloyd C. Bird High School）的一名物理老师兼课程协调员。胡佛在课堂上使用动手火箭项目作为学习工具。她还赞助了几个美国火箭挑战赛团队，这些团队设计和构建旨在满足特定性能标准的模型。例如，在2012年，比赛要求学生火箭击中800英尺的高度，并将载有两个完整生鸡蛋的货物返回地面，飞行时间为43到47秒。胡佛说：“这就像美国宇航局一样。您的时间有限，物资有限，因此必须一遍又一遍地发射。”
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