After months of designing, building and launching homemade model rockets, a team from the Green Vale School in Brookville will advance to the national finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC).
Strong qualifying scores backed by countless hours of preparation propelled these students past thousands of their peers, earning their team a chance to compete for the national title. TARC’s top 100 teams will travel to Great Meadow in The Plains, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to launch against fellow student rocketeers in the final fly-off.
In the most difficult challenge of the competition’s 12-year history, teams must design and build a model rocket that can travel to exactly 825 feet and back within 48-50 seconds while carrying precious cargo — two raw eggs that must return safely to the ground undamaged.
Participants are competing for $60,000 in scholarships and prizes, as well as bragging rights for earning the national title. Raytheon Company will host the winning team at the Farnborough International Air Show in England this July to launch against student teams from the United Kingdom and France in an international rocketry contest.
