The record was set as part of an the NPL Water Rocket Challenge, an annual event to encourage local schoolchildren to get interested in science.

exhibited a water rocket she made with her team at the fair. Chiu Cheung-ki, director of the Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council, explained why Stem education and fairs like this one matters.

But now a teacher has gone and ruined all that by making an air-water rocket launching pad for his STEM students. Just kidding — [Robert Hart] must be the coolest teacher in Australia when ...