🚀 Attention rocketeers: Registration for the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge is live! This exciting STEM competition invites middle and high school students to design, build, and launch model rockets, providing hands-on experience in solving engineering problems.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: design a rocket that cradles two eggs, oriented on their side, to altitude of 790 feet and a flight duration between 41 and 44 seconds. Read the rules HERE and register below.

Registration will close on December 1st or once 1,000 applications have been submitted, so don’t delay!

Tharptown High School from Russellville, Alabama earned the title of National Champion at the world’s largest rocketry competition, the American Rocketry Challenge. Tharptown High School bested a record-breaking 922 teams that entered the competition at the start of the year and the top 100 teams competing at National Finals on Sunday, designing, building, and launching a model rocket with greater precision than any other team in the country.

American Rocketry Challenge alum turned NASA Astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg joined the thousands of people in attendance. It was a full circle moment for Hoburg as he competed in the National Finals of the inaugural American Rocketry Challenge in 2003 as a member of his high school team.

On March 2, 2023, American Rocketry Challenge alum Warren “Woody” Hoburg launched to the International Space Station as the mission pilot for a six-month mission as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6. Woody participated in the first-ever American Rocketry Challenge in 2003, then known as the Team America Rocketry Challenge, as a North Allegheny High School (Pennsylvania) team member, alongside his brother.