Dozens of middle schoolers launched bottle rockets Saturday morning on a patch of grass at UW-Madison, some of the rockets soaring as high as the towering Engineering Research Building next door and taking nearly half a minute to return to earth. These weren?t the exploding rockets you buy at a roadside stand, but creations hand-built by physics whizzes in town for the city?s first turn at hosting the National Science Olympiad.
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