After nearly six months of rocketry design, simulated flights and test launches, 100 teams of middle and high school students from across the country are traveling to the nation’s capital for the final round of the 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge.
The 2012 competition challenges each three- to 10-person team to design and build a rocket that will lift off to an altitude of exactly 800 feet during a 43- to 47-second flight carrying two raw eggs, which must return by parachute to the ground undamaged. In its 10th year, TARC celebrates fueling the science, technology, engineering and math pipeline with students who are 80 percent more likely to pursue these fields, according to an alumni survey.
The winning team from the May 12 Flyoff will travel to London to defend America’s 2011 championship title at the international fly-off at the Farnborough International Air Show against teams from the UK and France.
What: The 10th Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge Final Flyoff
Who: The Aerospace Industries Association, the National Association of Rocketry and more than 700 middle and high school students representing 29 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
When: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: Great Meadow: 5089 Old Tavern Road, The Plains, VA 20198 (less than an hour’s drive from Washington, DC)
Media should RSVP to Michal Miller, michal.miller@widmeyer.com or 202-884-7337.
