THE story you have not heard from Australia’s first commercial rocket launch is of the three Logan sisters who dare to dream.
Rochedale school girls Victoria, Elizabeth and Charlotte Kendall (pictured left) are passionate young rocketeers.
They have been building rockets since they were children and compete at annual youth rocketry events.
The chance to attend Australia’s first commercial rocket launch was not wasted on the trio.
Both Victoria and Charlotte are duxes in their respective years at school.
Rocketeering started for them as child’s play. It may become their lives work.
Charlotte is off to Taiwan in coming weeks on a science, technology, engineering and maths scholarship to investigate industry.
She is also a student of Chinese.
The sisters are some of the kids who are the talk of Logan for all the right reasons as school comes to a close for another year.
They include Mabel Park Year 12 graduates who gave up Schoolies celebrations to take seats alongside policy makers at ChangeFest, gathering 600 plus delegates and 90 guests from all over Australia and New Zealand for workshops and forums about social equity.
And there are more. They include a teen from war-torn Syria who duxed Woodridge High.
And do not forget the Marsden High students who spent the last school holidays at NASA space camp.
Closer to home Hills College has added hydrogen combustion studies to the school curriculum. Students will learn the trade on the school’s new hydrogen bus from next year.
Two major car makers have just this year announced they will build cars with hydrogen engines. Hills kids will get in early on that trend.
Logan kids – they are reaching for the stars.
