The Team America Rocketry Challenge is a national amateur rocket competition for U.S. high school and middle school students and is sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. The competition challenges student teams to design, build, and fly a model rocket carrying two raw eggs as close as possible to a specific altitude. One hundred of the best teams will compete in a fly-off at Great Meadow, The Plains, Virginia, in May 2008, and the winning top ten student teams will share a total prize pool worth over $60,000 in cash. The goal is to encourage students to study advanced math and sciences and to consider studying aerospace fields in college. TARC is open to teams of students in grades 7-12 from any US school or nonprofit youth organization (ex: Boy/Girl Scouts, 4-H, Civil Air Patrol). 2008 Contest Rules are posted on the website at www.rocketcontest.org and sign up to get updates and the latest details on this exciting educational event.
1. 2 eggs for payload rather than 1
2. 750 foot altitude goal rather than 850
3. 45 second duration goal remains, but duration error is weighted by a factor of 2 in computing final score rather than a factor of 1
4. Single-staging is required, previously multi-staging was an option although seldom utilized
5. The top 10 (cash prize) places at the Finals will be decided on the basis of the sum of scores of 2 flights at the Finals, with the top 18 teams based on first-flight scores being invited to make a second flight in the last round of the day in order to qualify for one of these 10 places. We do not have the range capacity or available time to have all teams make two flights in the one day of the Finals.
Registration for TARC 2008 will open on September 5, 2007 and close on November 30 or when we get 750 entries, whichever comes first.
Friday, August 3, 2007
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