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Chantelle must push the button to fire one of the biggest ever UK firework displays.

Documentary series following a teacher's attempts to convert his pupils to physics and chemistry. Chantelle is chosen to fire one of the biggest ever firework displays in the UK.

Documentary series that tracks inspirational physics teacher Andy Smith's attempts to convert his pupils to physics and chemistry. 

Tension mounts when Chantelle is chosen to push the button to fire one of the biggest firework displays the UK has ever seen. Charlie and friends are off to China - to the the birthplace of the banger - where they are happily mobbed by science students at a Chinese school. 

Every evening in Liuyang, there is a huge display as firework manufacturers show off their latest designs, and the kids learn how the precision and power of physics is used to create the fantastic sky writing fireworks. 

Back home, Mr Smith takes the class to witness the extraordinary power of expanding gases with the Royal Artillery, and they discover they have all already handled explosives far too unstable for the Army to use. 

Finally, the whole class are invited behind the scenes at one of the biggest firework displays the UK has ever seen, to find out what all the science they have learned about can achieve. Has the Rocket Science project made any difference to the kids' interest and appreciation of the science that fills the world around them?

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Documentary series following inspirational physics teacher Andy Smith

Documentary series that tracks a typical class in a typical school over a rollercoaster nine months, as inspirational physics teacher Andy Smith tries to convert his pupils to physics and chemistry

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