American Rocketry Challenge 2025 FriendsofNASA.org: The American Rocketry Challenge (ARC), the world’s largest student rocket competition, has engaged over 100,000 middle and high school students in model rocketry. The challenge provides a yearlong opportunity to gain hands-on engineering experience by designing, building, testing, and launching model rockets to meet rigorous requirements. The program fosters leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills as students deepen their interest and

2024 American Rocketry Challenge National Finals Highlights FriendsofNASA.org: "Witness history in the making at the 2024 American Rocketry Challenge National Finals! 🌟 With our largest registration ever, the first-ever rain date, and a special visit from NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg—the first American Rocketry Challenge Alumni to go to space—this year’s event was unforgettable!" "Congratulations to Tharptown High School from Russellville, Alabama, for being crowned National Champions! 🏆 Compet

Congratulations to the Tharptown High School Rocketry Team on their second place win in the International Rocketry Challenge at Farnborough Air Show in the UK. They earned their berth in the IRC by winning the largest rocketry competition in the world, the American Rocketry Challenge, besting 921 teams from 45 states. The Rocket Center hosted a trip to Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Marshall Space Flight Center to show off our state’s aerospace industry and capped the d