Team america Rocketry Challenge

The Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is the world’s largest student rocket contest and a key piece of the aerospace and defense industry’s strategy to build a stronger U.S. workforce in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR), TARC was created in the fall of 2002 as a one-time celebration of the Centennial of Flight, but by popular demand became an annual program.

Click here to view a list of 2018 teams.

Approximately 5,000 students from across the nation compete in TARC each year. The contest’s rules and scoring parameters change every cycle to challenge the students...