TEAM AMERICA ROCKETRY CHALLENGE (TARC)
 
The Team America Rocketry Challenge is the largest model rocketry competition in the world. This is its fifth year running, giving high school students across the United States a chance to prove themselves and their skills among the best. It emphasizes the importance of math, science, reasoning, logic, and teamwork. Each year, the competition changes the goals that the competetors will have to reach. TARC is sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) in partnership with NASA, the Department of Defense, American Association of Physics Teachers and over 39 AIA member companies. Winners of this prestigious national competition share in more than $60,000 in cash, savings bonds and additional prizes.

 

 

Objective:
The purpose of the Challenge is to teach students aerospace science by having them design and build a safe and stable model rocket that lifts a fragile payload (one raw egg) to exactly 850 feet and has a flight duration of exactly 45 seconds, at the end of which it returns this payload to earth safely and undamaged.

Date:
Qualification – Sunday, April 8, 2007
Finals - Saturday, May 19, 2007 (May 20 if rain delay)

Finals Location:
Great Meadow, The Plains, VA

Payload:
Large raw hens egg
Perfectflite 15K/WD Altimeter

Visit the official TARC website

 
 
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