The American Rocketry Challenge is the world’s largest rocket contest with nearly 5,000 students nationwide competing each year. The contest gives middle and high school students the opportunity to design, build, and launch model rockets and hands-on experience solving engineering problems.
🚀 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 43 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 National Champion Release
