Registration is now
open for the 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge, the world's
largest rocket contest challenging participants to compete for $60,000 in prizes
and scholarships and a trip to next year's international air show in Paris.
Contest rules and registration are at www.rocketcontest.org. Participation is
limited to the first 750 teams who register by Monday, December
1.
The
Challenge: Teams must design and build a rocket containing a raw egg
that will climb to 750 feet and stay aloft for 45 seconds. This year's new task
is transporting the one-egg payload lying on its side rather than positioned
vertically, mimicking the position of an astronaut.
Students in grades
7-12 in any U.S. school or non-profit youth organization are eligible to
compete. About 7,000 students from across the country took part in the contest
in 2008, and since TARC's first contest in 2003, almost 50,000 students have
taken the challenge. A 4-H team from Washington County, WI http://www.4hrocketry.org/ placed 15th in
TARC nationally in 2007.
Aerospace Industries
Association (AIA) sponsors the
contest with the National Association of Rocketry (NAR), NASA, the Defense
Department, and AIA member companies. NAR www.nar.org is a partner with 4-H and specifically
invites 4-H groups to try TARC.
The rocket contest
gives future engineers the opportunity to demonstrate their math and physics
skills. Working together in a team environment, they will design a real
aerospace product, which will be put through the rigors of testing and
evaluation. For more details download the Handbook and
Rules
documents and get started with your 4-H Rocketry Team right
away!
We thought you'd like to know!
Ron Drum
Resource Development Accounts
Manager
National
Coordinator, 4-H Science,
Engineering
& Technology (SET)
National 4-H Council
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