EAA's Countdown To Kitty Hawk

High School Rocket Contest Commemorates Wright Brothers Flight

03/15/02 - In honor of 2003’s centennial of powered flight, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has teamed with the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) to sponsor the "Team America Rocketry Challenge,” a rocket design and launch contest for U.S. high school students. Five winning student teams will share a total prize pool of approximately $50,000 in savings bonds, while their supervising teachers’ departments will share $9,000 in cash.

The competition involves designing, building and flying a multi-stage model rocket weighing less than 3.3 pounds at liftoff, taking two raw eggs and an electronic altimeter as close as possible to 1500 feet. A fly-off competition for the top 100 teams will be held in Northern Virginia in April, 2003.

Information about the Challenge, including entry forms, is posted on the AIA website.

AIA represents the nation's major manufacturers of commercial, military and business aircraft, helicopters, aircraft engines, missiles, spacecraft, materials, and related components and equipment. The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is the nation's largest and oldest non-profit organization for sport rocketry consumers, focusing primarily on education, public information, and the setting of nationally-recognized safety standards for sport rocket motors and sport rocket flying.




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