The 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge is now underway!

The 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge is now underway! Teams from across the nation are working on designing, building and flying a rocket that reaches an altitude of 750 feet, stays aloft for 45 seconds, and returns one raw egg unbroken. Mentors from the National Association of Rocketry are ready and willing to help your team complete a successful flight! Submit your team's qualification flights by Monday, April 6th for your chance to be one of the top 100 teams to compete for your share of $60,000 in cash and scholarships. View a recommended schedule to keep your team on track.

TARC Graduate Finds His Future

As far as destiny goes, an advanced placement physics class wasn't exactly where Dave Adelman expected to find his.

Then a senior at Oakton High School in Vienna, Va., Adelman was facing a fateful choice: robotics or rocketry. With AIA's Team America Rocketry Challenge in its inaugural year, students were allowed – for the first time – to choose between participating in TARC or competing in the annual FIRST Robotics contest. Adelman was one of five (4 guys, 1 girl) who opted for rockets. "We were all new to rockets," Adelman said.

Team America Rocketry Challenge Rocketry Lesson Plan Competition

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), in cooperation with the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), is interested in identifying best practices for implementing model rocketry into both the formal instructional classroom as well as the informal activities of clubs such as the 4-H, Boy & Girl Scouts, and other after school programs. AAPT invites the teachers and/or coaches of teams participating in the 2009 TARC to submit lesson plans or similar documents describing their team's activities, planning, and experiments undertaken while preparing for the 2009 TARC competition.